Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability in Business
How Organizations Handle Profits and Social Duties
- Preeta M Banerjee - International Business School, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
- Vanita Shastri - TiE-Boston
Using in-depth and contemporary case studies, the book demonstrates how to define, measure and achieve socially and environmentally sustainable growth. The book inspires social entrepreneurs to build new models of sustainable growth, to scale existing solutions and to create new public-private partnerships.
| Foreword: Inspiring People to Engage in Social Entrepreneurship | Jugnu Jain, Raj Melville and Rakesh Pandey |
| Preface | Vanita Shastri |
| From Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Global Social Entrepreneurship | Vanita Shastri and Preeta M Banerjee |
| Defining metrics for Social impact by Selecting and Setting Corporate Sustainability | Gururaj 'Desh' Deshpande, Meenakshi Verma Agrawal, Nishith Acharya and Naveen Jha |
| Measurements | Duncan White |
| Lessons from Working with the Government of India: The story of Pratham | Leona Christy and Vikas Taneja |
| Social Entrepreneurship Across National Boundaries | Behzad J Larry, Azad Oommen, Venkatesh 'Venky' Raghavendra |
| The Evolution of Ubuntu at Work: Helping women micro entrepreneurs escape the poverty trap | Vibha Pingle |
| Social Entrepreneurship in a Traditionally Profit-Centered Industry | Steven F Young |
| Environmental Sustainability - Managing Stakeholders Through Education | Vithal V Deshpande |
| The Clean Technology Industry: Social entrepreneurship and sustainability | Daniel Wengrovitz and Preeta M Banerjee |
| Greening the Built Environment | Ameeta Soni |
| Developing Green Innovation: DeCopier paper cleaning products | Sushil Bhatia |
| New Beginnings in Age-Old Philosophies | Preeta M Banerjee and Vanita Shastri |
| Index |
This edited volume is a great knowledge resource for researchers, practitioners, donors and others with social development as their agenda. The book inspires social entrepreneurs to build new models of sustainable growth, to scale existing solutions, and to create new public-private partnerships. It provides various facets of social entrepreneurship and the practical issues involved in the process of getting all the stakeholders together to work for a common cause and to raise the standards of living for the poor and disadvantaged section of the society.
