Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
Stakeholders in a Global Environment
- William B Werther, Jr - University of Miami, USA
- David Chandler - University of Colorado Denver Business School
New and Hallmark Features
- New! Chapter 2 on corporate strategy in relation to CSR contrasts the resources perspective with Michael Porter’s five-forces model, and outlines a third viewpoint: the stakeholder perspective
- Part II presents 24 in-depth and topical CSR issues and cases, including cases related to the financial crises of 2008
- New! An expanded set of questions for Discussion and Review and Online Resources supplements the cases and allows instructors to combine traditional classroom activities with exploration of relevant company, NGO, academic, and other CSR research
Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!
A comprehensive password-protected Instructor Teaching Site is available at www.sagepub.com/strategiccsr. Resources include sample syllabi; PowerPoint slides; faculty notes; questions for discussion on the chapters, issues, and cases; a test bank; and information on how to subscribe to the authors’ CSR newsletters.
"The book is a powerful and persuasive presentation of strategic CSR."
This book has been presented in a very readable and easy-to-handle form. The get-up and lay-out of the book are easy on the eye. Throughout the book important points have been highlighted in specially created boxes and windows and discussions points have been listed at the end of the chapters to sustain curiosity and promote further interest. Detailed references follow the chapters… [It] creates its own interactive website (http://www.sagepub.com/strategiccsr/) to continue its association with the readers… a very welcome addition to the existing body of literature on the subject.
By addressing business ethics, corporate governance, environmental concern, and other issues, society creates a dynamic context in which firms operate. The book identifies the key issues of CSR, models them around conceptual frameworks, and provides both the means and the resources to investigate this evolving and important topics…CSR embraces and external environment made up of many constituent groups, all of whom have a stake in the firm’s profit-seeking activities. It demonstrates the value to firms of defining CSR in relation to their operational context and then incorporating a CSR perspective into their strategic planning and all aspects of the organization.
The book is a powerful and persuasive presentation of strategic CSR.