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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business Amir H. Rahdari Dr. Sahar Sepasi
CSR & Sustainable Business Published in Persian فارسی
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Introduction
2018
Since the 1970s, a rapidly growing body of evidence has been in development revolving around the argument that the current trends in economic development, population growth, resource consumption, biodiversity, social justice, pollution, Green House Gases (GHG) emissions,waste disposal, etc. are unsustainable and, given the right circumstances, they can lead to social fiasco and catastrophic planetary systems failure (Rockstr€om et al., 2009). There is ample evidence with regard to financial losses (Blanco et al., 2009) and reputational damages (Karpoff et al., 2005) imposed on irresponsible companies after causing environmental disasters. The financial scandals, such as the collapse of Enron (Owen, 2005) resulting from Corporate Governance failures (Neubaum and Zahra, 2006) in conjunction with the increase in environmental disasters, social challenges and ethical problems have apprised stakeholders (Agudo-Valiente et al., 2015) of the social responsibility of the business. Therefore, companies have been under constant scrutiny in the past decades over their environmental footprint as well as the related social issues such as workers› health and safety. In parallel, over the past several decades, sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rapidly expanded from marginalized concepts into complex and interdisciplinary ones. The concept of CSR and sustainability at the corporate level has taken many forms and has been defined in numerous ways based on the time and/or the context of the discussion including stakeholder theory (Freeman, 1984), corporate social performance (Wood, 1991), corporate social responsiveness (Frederick, 1994), triple bottom line (Elkington, 1999), Bottom of the Pyramid (Prahalad, 2004), corporate citizenship (Crane et al., 2008), corporate sustainability or application of sustainability at the corporate level (Gray, 2010), shared value (Porter and Kramer, 2011), corporate sustainability and responsibility (Visser, 2011), conscious capitalism (Mackey et al., 2013) etc. To break down the complex and confusing world of social responsibility of business particulaly in a developing country such as Iran to fathomable pieces, it is imperative to raise awareness among the business leaders as well as the general public on social issues and environmental degredations associated with the corporate world. This book attempts to provide a common place reference for Iranian business leaders to engage in sustainable and socially responsible business practices. The book entails over 50 full-length global and local case studies, hunderds of au courant examples and cover the most prominent aspects of sustainable and responsible business. In addition, the book covers CSR implementation and guides businesses to behave more responsibly and sustainably. Finally, it discusses the latest development in sustainability, circular economy, SDGs, and sustainable technologies, and the recent emergence of new sustainable business models.
Introduction
Amir Rahdari 2018 © Copyright
CSR and Sustainable Business
A. Rahdari
Authors
Chapters
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A brief look at CSR
Amir Rahdari CSR: Definitions, Concepts, and Drivers
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Young World Leader in Sustainable Business, UK. .Founder, GSRN and Director of SRG Amir Rahdari is a sustainable and circular business leader from Iran. He has been active in sustainability space both in business and academia. His focus is on the role of business in society, its responsibility towards stakeholders and its potentiality for the realization of the SDGs by the year 2030. He is the Founder of Global Sustainability Research Network, Director of Sustainability Research Group (SRG) at USERN, Associate Editor at International Journal of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (IGI Global, US) and a Sustainability and Social Responsibility Certified Associate (SSRI, UK). In academia, Amir has made several contributions to the fields of CSR, sustainability, and governance with implications for business community including synthesizing sustainability ratings and most common sustainability indicators, developing sustainability and CSR maturity models, theorizing Hyper-transparency, Sustainable Governance and Schumpeterian social entrepreneurship, examining Sustainability Reporting in HEIs and finding ways for businesses to pursue the SDGs that have been published by leading scholarly journals and international publishers. In 2016, he was appointed as a Science Sentinel in the field of management by publons.
3 Scope of CSR
Modern Sustainable and Responsible Business Models
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In practice, he has developed over a dozen global/local sustainability tools for businesses to use and has consulted/collaborated with more than fifty international organizations across the globe. He is a CSR and Sustainable Business Consultant in Iran and the Middle East. In 2014, he was appointed as one of the young leaders in sustainable business by 2degress (UK). Currently, he is an advisor/consultant to more than a dozen organizations.
Dr. Sahar Sepasi Assistant Professor, Economics and Management Faculty Tarbiat Modares University
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Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Management
SDGs and Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Case Analysis
Table of Contents
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