Corporate Social Responsibility & Business Ethics

Provides a look at how real organizations are formulating and implementing strategic change. This book is filled with vignettes, quotes, and real-world examples that illustrate the faster, more adaptive strategic planning processes. It is relevant for a range of business, governmental, and non-profi..

Combining science, philosophy, politics and economics, McIntosh takes a provocative look at the changes required to build a new global political economy. This call to action advocates a balanced political economy with trandisciplinarity, accountability and transparency at its centre...

Gender equality in the workplace is a hot topic for multiple groups: businesses, governments, researchers and, most of all, workers. This book goes beyond describing the problems and highlighting bad practice. It focuses on understanding the sociological and psychological changes needed to achieve g..

A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con...

A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con...

Zadek crystallizes his key work from 1990s into a coherent whole, which, read together, provides a context, lens and early history lesson on how corporate responsibility has become one of the defining business issues of the 21st century...

Uses managerial familiarity with quality management to provide a framework for managing a company's responsibilities to stakeholders and the natural environment that can be applied in a range of sectoral and geographic contexts. This work is intended for managers, students and researchers...

Governments around the world are struggling to meet their commitments to achieve targets relating to reductions in greenhouse gases. Many writers advocating ways to achieve these targets offer radical but often impractical approaches that do not offer a way forward within the existing economic model..

Applying a trauma-informed mental health and psychosocial perspective, Transformational Resilience offers a groundbreaking approach to responding to climate disruption. T¿he book describes how climate disruption¿ traumatizes ¿societies and how ¿effective responses¿ can ¿catalyze¿ positive learning, ..

This book explains how social media made sustainability a mainstream concern for all society. It is a powerful guide for both communication and marketing professionals in business, and a textbook for the growing field of sustainability communication in higher education...

Because of a management model emphasizing standardization and a one-size-fits-all approach, the previous good health of firms depended on economic performance and maximizing shareholder value. Financial crisis and the ensuing leadership void have changed the rules of the game for everyone. In this ..

Today's successful companies are those that recognize that they have responsibilities to stakeholders that go beyond mere compliance with the law or meeting the fiduciary responsibility inherent in maximizing returns. This book focuses on engaging stakeholders for long-term value creation...