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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438067803321

Titolo

Corporate Social Responsibility : Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies for 21st Century Leaders / / edited by John O. Okpara, Samuel O. Idowu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-40975-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXXI, 296 p. 16 illus.)

Collana

CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, , 2196-7075

Disciplina

658.408

Soggetti

Business ethics

Public administration

Leadership

Business Ethics

Public Administration

Business Strategy/Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Conceptual Framework of CSR -- Part II: Global Challenges and Opportunities -- Part III: Sustainability: Implementing CSR in MNCs/MNEs, SMEs, and Family Business -- Part IV:  CSR in Higher Education Institutions around the World.

Sommario/riassunto

In today's global business environment it is no longer acceptable that a corporation does well simply by doing good. It is expected. With increasing pressures from stakeholders to improve the bottom line as well as to be good corporate citizens, business leaders face tough decisions. What social issues should we support? What initiatives should we develop that will do the most good for the company as well as the cause? Do we include social messages in our advertising, encourage our employees to volunteer, do we modify our business practices? How do we integrate a new initiative into current strategies? These and other challenges will continue to face future leaders. This book provides thoughtful answers to these important questions, and to many more. The book offers suggestions on how to choose among



major worthy causes and also how to measure the amount of good achieved both for the recipients and the companies themselves. Of course, all is not only about challenges, there are loads of opportunities that go along with them but it’s only responsible and sustainable leaders who would be able to spot these opportunities. That is the future which awaits 21st century leaders.