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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820592103321

Autore

Waddock Sandra A

Titolo

Building the responsible enterprise : where vision and values add value / / Sandra Waddock and Andreas Rasche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8387-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RascheAndreas

Disciplina

658.4/08

Soggetti

Social responsibility of business

Industrial management - Social aspects

Industrial management - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Responsible enterprise -- 2. In search of balance -- 3. The role of personal and organizational vision -- 4. Values in management practice -- 5. Value added -- 6. Stakeholders -- 7. Managing for responsibility -- 8. Assessing responsible enterprise -- 9. Sustainability and the global village -- 10. Responsibility initiatives and guidance documents -- 11. Scanning the future -- 12. Value added for the global future -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building the Responsible Enterprise provides students and practitioners with a practical, yet academically rooted, introduction to the state-of-the-art in sustainability and corporate social responsibility. The book consists of four parts, highlighting different aspects of corporate responsibility. Part I discusses the context in which corporate responsibility occurs. Part II looks at three critical issues: the development of vision at the individual and organizational levels, the integration of values into the responsible enterprise, and the ways that these building blocks create added value for a firm. Part III highlights the actual management practices that enable enterprises to achieve excellence, focusing on the roles that stakeholder relationships play in improving performance. The book concludes with a conversation about responsible management in the global village, examining the emerging



infrastructure in which enterprise finds itself today. Throughout the text, cases exemplify key concepts and highlight companies that are guiding us into tomorrow's business environment.