The author explores how far businesses can and should improve their social and environmental performance, arguing that corporate citizenship emerges from the New Economy dynamics and relating it to learning, knowledge and innovation. The book sets out practical issues for business, including goal and boundary setting, measurement, dialogue and how to build trust.
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'A benchmark book' John Elkington, Sustainability
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Simon Zadek is Chair of the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability and Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. He is one of the leading advisors, consultants and trainers on corporate citizenship
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Some economists say that the purpose of corporations is simple: to earn profitable returns on their capital investments. All else is incidental, even superfluous. This might be termed the Milton Friedman approach, for the famous Chicago-school economist. However, others contend that corporations, particularly global ones, must assume responsibility for "sustainable economic development." If corporations don't, they argue, who will? Without concerted corporate action, the earth will become polluted, and sooner rather than later, global warming will increase, with calamitous effects. Poverty and hunger will mount. The superrich will live in guarded enclaves, cordoned off from the hellish and chaotic lives of the majority. In Simon Zadek's award-winning book, the ethicist and visionary examines corporate social and environmental responsibility and provides a practical prescription for meaningful, positive changes. getAbstract says Zadek's book is required reading for executives, public policy makers, academics and others who ponder the role of corporations in creating a sustainable world economy.
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- Corporate Integrity: Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership by Marvin T. Brown on page 27, page 180, and Back Matter
- Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development by Chad Holliday on page 152, and Back Matter
- The Market for Virtue: The Potential And Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility by David Vogel in Back Matter
- Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker in Back Matter
- A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance And New Multilateralisms (Global Security in a Changing World) (Global Security in a Changing World) by Sandra Jean Maclean in Back Matter
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