Author Description

"This textbook explores the overlapping interests of corporate responsibility and sustainable development, specifically focusing on the dynamics of social change, sustainable governance and evaluation, and creating social value. Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development: An Integrative Perspective draws on ideas and research relevant to both concepts, highlighting the interdependent nature of corporate strategy and policymaker ambition. The authors seek to capture that any evaluation of responsibility for sustainable development demands multiple lens. They propose an integrative understanding to tackling global challenges around sustainable development and focus on three themes: perspectives on social change; sustainability governance and evaluation; and creating social value. Overall, the book takes an evaluative approach, using these themes as lenses for engaging with global challenges, which encourages reflection and informed action. Written by two highly experienced authors, this book integrates short case studies and chapter questions throughout the text, in order to reinforce learning and help students reconcile ideas presented with real world issues. It will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of business, governance and corporate governance, CSR, sustainability and sustainable development, stakeholder theory, business ethics, and politics"--