Corporate Responsibility: Governance, Compliance and Ethics in a Sustainable Environment, 2nd Edition

This new edition of Corporate Responsibility starts with a fundamental shift in perspective from the previous edition by highlighting the shift from corporate responsibility being a vital business issue, to being the vital issue facing business. In the process the author brings together a comprehensive guide to the subject to addressing contemporary developments in both theory and practice.

A distinct intellectual framework is developed which highlights the ways the issues at the heart of Corporate Responsibility hang together. This links the ethics which underpin the values of corporations and their leadership to the way they exercise their responsibilities as stewards not just of their business but of the natural, human and built environment which they affect. Up-to-the minute research is integrated with case studies that allow the teacher, student and researcher to access the body of contemporary knowledge while responding to a rapidly changing landscape.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Corporate social responsibility: the emerging agenda
Chapter 2. The corporate and social/economic challenge
Chapter 3. Defining corporate social responsibility
Chapter 4. The role and function of business in society
Chapter 5. Business ethics
Chapter 6. Codes of behaviour
Chapter 7. The nature and evolution of corporate governance
Chapter 8. Standards, safety and security
Chapter 9. The greening of economies and corporations – the sustainability challenge
Chapter 10. Sustainability – the opportunities and challenges
Chapter 11. Managing a sustainable business
Chapter 12. Embedding CSR practice
Chapter 13. The built environment
Chapter 14. Ways forward and conclusions