Corporate Social Responsibility Books

New and Published Books

1. Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management

   By Bart Bossink

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between them, and the behavior of the system. This book explores the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

   By Kenneth Amaeshi, Paul Nnodim, Osuji Onyeka

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

   Despite its recent popularity in literature, theory, and practice, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) remains a vague concept that struggles to define itself beyond the confines of corporate philanthropy or sustainability. In some circles, it is a response to the present and anticipated climate...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Business and the Natural Environment

   Edited by Susse Georg, Andrew Hoffman

   Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

   Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire, Love Canal, Bhopal, the Exxon...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Business, Government and Sustainable Development

   By Gerard Keijzers

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of interwoven social, economic and ecological issues, nationally and internationally. The involved process of sustainable development has now become a permanent and...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Corporate Social Responsibility

   A Research Handbook

   Edited by Kathryn Haynes, Alan Murray, Jesse Dillard

   Concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are widely used by businesses, professional bodies and academics, but are also widely contested. CSR is usually described as comprising of three elements: environmental, economic and social, though there is no serious consensus on how to go about...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Innovating for Sustainability

   Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility

   By Luca Berchicci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Creating a Sustainable Economy

   An Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy

   Edited by Gerardo Marletto

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers – or just curious readers – who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability

   Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity....

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Business Regulation and Non-State Actors

   Whose Standards? Whose Development?

   Edited by Peter Utting, Darryl Reed, Ananya Reed

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Tourism and Hospitality

    Issues and Developments

    Edited by Jaime Seba

    Tourism has become a key global economic activity as expectations with regard to our use of leisure time have evolved, attributing greater meaning to our free time. Tourism is one of the world s largest industries, and in many regions it is the single largest source of investment and employment....

    Published December 14th 2011 by Apple Academic Press