Corporate Stewardship
Subtitle: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness
By: Susan Albers Mohrman
Contributors: O'Toole, James; Lawler III, Edward E.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781351285407
Subjects: Social responsibility of business; Sustainable development; International business enterprises; Management; Entreprises; Responsabilité sociale; Développement durable; Entreprises multinationales; Gestion; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Business Ethics; Strategic Planning
Description: "Stewardship entails a profound understanding and acceptance of the challenges that result from the organization's interdependence with the societal and ecological contexts in which it operates--and of what it takes to embrace the challenges to be a force for building a viable future. This book dares to ask 'why' business leaders should embrace stewardship in the current market where profit reigns supreme. A shift in approach represents fundamental change for the corporate world, and even the most advanced corporations consider themselves to be in the starting block of this transition. The book sets out the practical ways in which corporate stewardship can be achieved through embedding new approaches across the different functions of a business. This book, written by the leading thinkers in sustainability research, provides practical guidance on how companies can resolve the paradoxical challenges they face. How can they be at the same time profitable and responsible, effective and ethical, sustainable and adaptable? It explores what businesses are doing, what they can and should do to effectively respond to external challenges, and focuses on how leaders can create cultures, strategies, and designs far beyond "business as usual". Stewards must not only make proper current use of that which they hold in trust, they also must leave it in better condition for use by future generations. Corporate Stewardship challenges managers, executives, and directors of global corporations to think and act as stewards of both their organizations and the physical and social environments in which they operate."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Overview: history and the future --; title: chapter 1 Achieving sustainable effectiveness --; title: Business not as usual  -- Susan Albers Mohrman James O'Toole Edward E. Lawler; title: chapter 2 Corporate stewardship --; title: Successes and failures (a selected history)  -- James O'Toole; title: chapter 3 Stewardship of the future --; title: Large system change and company stewardship  -- Sandra Waddock; title: part, II The leader's role --; title: chapter 4 The role of the leader in shaping the ethical culture of the corporation  -- Kirk O. Hanson; title: chapter 5 Leading socially responsible, value-creating corporations  -- Daniel Brown Rakesh Khurana; title: part, III Strategy and organization --; title: chapter 6 Sustainability for strategic advantage --; title: The shift to flourishing  -- Chris Laszlo; title: chapter 7 Designing for sustainable effectiveness --; title: The role of embeddedness and agility  -- Christopher G. Worley Susan Albers Mohrman; title: chapter 8 Stewardship and human resource management --; title: From me to we to all of us  -- Philip H. Mirvis; title: chapter 9 Corporate and integrated reporting --; title: A functional perspective  -- Robert G. Eccles George Serafeim; title: part, IV The world of stakeholders --; title: chapter 10 Attaining corporate social responsibility practice in corporations --; title: Recognizing the interdependence of governments and multinational corporations  -- Jette Steen Knudsen; title: chapter 11 BoP 2.0 --; title: The next generation of strategy for the base of the pyramid  -- Stuart L. Hart; title: chapter 12 Sustainability in the developing world --; title: An exploration of corporate responsibility and efficacy in promoting social justice  -- Bruce Hutton Tricia D. Olsen; title: part, V The view forward --; title: chapter 13 The fourth wave --; title: Management science and practice in the age of the Anthropocene  -- Andrew J. Hoffman John R. Ehrenfeld; title: chapter 14 Stewardship versus the market --; title: A skeptical perspective -- Paul Adler.