The corporate social responsibility agenda
Subtitle: the case for sustainable and responsible business
By: Olivier Delbard
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9789811206603; 9789811206597
Subjects: Social responsibility of business; Entreprises; Responsabilité sociale
Description: "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a buzzword in management today. And yet, skepticism often prevails, as CSR is often associated with traditional philanthropic practices enabling companies to greenwash their unethical social and environmental practices. This book offers a fresh view on today's CSR from both historical and geographical perspectives. Exploring its roots and theoretical developments in the US, the author then focuses on how CSR has spread across the world, first in Europe and later in the developing world. An updated overview of today's CSR agenda is provided with a focus on four key issues: stakeholder inclusion, employee engagement and social dialogue, human rights and environmental sustainability. With the support of multiple cases and examples taken from various continents and industries, the book adopts a sustainability-driven perspective, based on the belief that the future of CSR lies in the strategic embeddeness of key issues into the company's value chain. Finally, the book attempts to draw the contours of tomorrow's CSR by proposing a new terminology reflecting the current evolution of CSR"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: CONTENTS; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of Figures; title: Introduction; title: The context; title: The objectives; title: Chapter 1 Towards CSR Embeddedness; title: From Theory to Practice; title: 1. The institutionalization of the CSR concept; title: 1.1. Howard Bowen's book social responsibilities of the businessman: Seminal and visionary; title: 1.2. The theoretical development of CSR in the U.S. (1950s-1990s): Multiple and contradictory; title: 1.2.1. The 1950s and 60s: Profit only?; title: 1.2.2. 1970s-1990s: A changing society, renewed CSR approaches; title: 1.3. Since the 1990s: CSR has gone global; title: 1.3.1. The rise of institutional theories; title: 1.3.2. A turning point: Sustainable development and the triple-bottom line approach; title: 1.3.3. Since 2000: From corporate citizenship to political CSR?; title: 1.3.4. The liberal response in the 2000s; title: 1.3.4.1. Porter & Kramer and the shared value concept; title: 1.3.4.2. The Bottom of Pyramid approach; title: 2. Moving beyond philanthropy ... For sure?; title: 2.1. The "CSR integration pyramid"; title: 2.1.1. Stage 1: Philanthropy; title: 2.1.2. Stage 2: Compliance; title: 2.1.3. Stage 3: Strategic CSR; title: Chapter 2 The Stakeholder Challenge; title: 1. The birth of a concept; title: 1.1. The foundations; title: 1.2. Toward a normative theory?; title: 1.3. Prioritizing stakeholders?; title: 1.4. The conceptual limits of stakeholder theory; title: 2. Walking the talk?; title: 2.1. Materiality; title: 2.2. Engaging with stakeholders?; title: 2.3. Partnering with stakeholders?; title: 2.4. A challenge for ever?; title: Chapter 3 The "Blind Spot" of CSR? Social Dialogue and Policies; title: 1. CSR and social dialogue at the national level in Europe; title: 2. CSR and social dialogue within the European Union; title: 3. CSR and social dialogue at the global scale: The case for International Framework Agreements?; title: 4. Lessons from the Rana Plaza case; title: 5. A priority for the CSR agenda of tomorrow?; title: Chapter 4 Human Rights and CSR; title: A Long Way to Go; title: 1. From the political realm to the CSR arena; title: 1.1. The consequences of globalization (mid 1980s-2010); title: 1.2. The case of Total in Myanmar: Towards a managerial approach to human rights; title: 1.3. The rising power of soft law; title: 2. Human Rights and CSR today: Much remains to be done; title: 2.1. Hard law advances; title: 2.2. An overview of human rights policies in high risk sectors; title: 2.3. Best practices; title: 2.4. The case for responsible sourcing; title: 2.4.1. L'Occitane in Burkina Faso; title: Chapter 5 From CSR to Sustainability; title: Learning from Nature; title: 1. CSR and sustainability: From environmental compliance to opportunity; title: 1.1. Moving beyond compliance; title: 1.1.1. The rise of environmental sustainability awareness; title: 1.1.2. Social sustainability, the missing link?; title: 1.2. Learning from nature: Embedding sustainability; title: 1.2.1. The climate "push"; title: 1.2.2. Toward an integrated approach; title: 1.3. Learning from Nature; title: 1.3.1. New challenges; title: 1.3.2. Imitating nature: Biomimicry; title: 2. Interface, a model sustainable company?