Product Description: It is now 20 years since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, better known as the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro. An important achievement of the conference was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol...read more

Product Description: As the world moves into a new era, characterized by depleted environmental resources coupled with climate change, businesses seem to have reacted accordingly, making sustainability top of their visible agenda. As such, there is a need to enact the necessary changes and monitor them...read more

Product Description: The relationship between economic or social or political activity and risk is widely recognized at a societal level, a market level and a business level, and equally widely discussed. The relationship between governance and risk at all of these levels is equally widely recognized but much less widely discussed...read more

Product Description: Corporate social responsibility is becoming rapidly embedded into the strategic planning and operational processes of all organizations, while at the same time our understanding of what is meant by this phenomenon continues to develop and to be extended beyond the domain of the corporate into that of all other organizations...read more

Product Description: This volume examines the word that's on everybody s lips in business, in government and in society - sustainability. There are of course many aspects of sustainability which might be considered to reflect Brundtland s three pillars of economic, environmental and social sustainability...read more

Product Description: The issue of human rights, in the context of corporate social responsibility, is normally taken to relate to concern about exploitation in the supply chain - child labour, slavery in developing countries, and similar evils; but of course, human rights are engaged in relation to the treatment of employees in any work situation...read more

Product Description: Recent corporate failures have attracted the attention of managers, governments and the general public to the role of governance and social responsibility. Ranging from managerial behaviour and reward systems, to environmental protection and human rights, governance and social responsibility encompasses a variety of thought provoking business issues...read more

Product Description: Governance is very much a current concern in the public interest. The global economic recession, from which we are just emerging, has highlighted failures in governance and regulation with much blame being laid at the feet of regulators and demands for perpetrators to be sanctioned accordingly...read more

Product Description: The current economic situation has highlighted deficiencies in corporate governance while also showing the importance of stakeholder relations. It has also raised the profile of the debates regarding corporate social responsibility and shown the inter-relationship with governance...read more

Product Description: Sustainability is normally considered to be about choices for the future being limited by decisions made in the present, and is frequently portrayed as concerning environmental issues alone. The Durable Corporation rejects both of these notions to argue that sustainability is a more complex concept that involves balancing many factors...read more

Product Description: The last few decades have seen significant changes in the structure of business organizations, including downsizing, outsourcing and flattened management structures. The effects on employees have been considerable. In this context the importance of the psychological contract between employer and employee has been overlooked, and there is uncertainty about what can be done to bring about changes to this contract and ultimately the future of organizations...read more

Presents a study and understanding of the variety of methodologies which provide the framework for organizational practice. This book combines a strong theoretical background with the practical application of this theory by practising managers.

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Product Description: This book addresses the application creating shareholder value by providing a clear guide to the appropriate techniques and systems to adopt in the management of the creation of shareholder value. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The relationship between companies and the environment in which they operate is of growing importance, with senior management increasingly recognising that they have a responsibility not just to shareholders but also to their other stakeholders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)