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International Business, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
Author(s): Foreword (Author), Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (Editor), Liam Leonard (Editor)
- Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication Date: February 27, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 271 pages
- ISBN-10: 1781906254
- ISBN-13: 9781781906255
Book Description
Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Volume 11: International Business, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility brings together a range of practitioners and academics from the world of business to examine corporate social responsibility (CSR) in policy and practice in a series of case studies from across the globe. This is the first in a two volume study of Corporate Social Responsibility and corporate behaviour from around the world and takes in viewpoints from five continents. This first volume on the topic contains eight chapters, and includes contributions from Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Colombia, Finland, India, Turkey, and the United States. This comprehensive collection contributes to the advance of the intersection of CSR, sustainability, politics, economics and international business studies, and offers a new set of manuscripts for enhancing practitioners’ viewpoints for decision-making processes in relation to social, environmental, economic, and labour issues regarding multinational enterprises’ domestic and international activities.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Many of them at universities in countries far from the centers of capitalist power, business scholars explore a mechanism for sustainability by which investments made can achieve the full economic benefits as long as there is an agreement to promote social and political stability. The control over political and social variables determines, or helps to build, a competitive advantage, they say, and ensures a corporation’s long-term running position on the market and the facilitation of capital accumulation. Among the topics are global civil society and international business, the dominant logic of strategic corporate responsibility and innovative value co-creation, developing a global market-entry framework for green and renewable technologies, conflicting forces for the internationalization of hydropower equipment producers, and a strategic policy framework for re-evaluating impacts of corporate social responsibility programs on the mining-affected areas of India. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. –Book News Inc. Portland, OR
About the Author
Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez – Universidad EAFIT Medellin, Colombia
Liam Leonard – Academic Consultant, California, US
Dr. Liam Leonard (BA; M. Phil; PhD) Researcher and International Academic Consultant, based in California, USA. Previously, Liam has been Chair of the Criminology Association of Ireland and former President of the Sociology Association of Ireland. He lectures Sociology, Criminology, Politics, Human Rights, Penology/Prison Studies, Sustainability and Environmental Issues, Social Movements, Social Capital, Professional Development and Equality & Diversity. The author/editor of over ten books and numerous journal articles, he is Senior Editor of the Ecopolitics Books Series, the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Book Series (both with Emerald UK) and Founding Editor of the CRIMSOC Journal of Social Criminology.
Dr. Leonard has edited the 2011 Irish issue of the Prison Journal, as well as special issues of Environmental Politics and the Irish Journal of Sociology and the Criminology issue of the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies. Dr. Leonard was awarded the Sage Publishing Research Excellence Award in New York as well as the NAIRTL Research & Teaching Award in 2012, and has over twelve years experience as an academic and lecturer in the National University of Ireland and the Irish Institute of Technology sectors.
He has given papers at the European Sociology Association, European Criminology Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the European Group for Crime & Deviance and the Irish Sociology and Irish Criminology Conferences. Dr. Leonard sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Prison Journal and the Journal of Criminal Psychology. Since June 2013, Dr. Leonard has lived in Orange County, California, where he edits the SOC: Sociology in Orange County resource page.
Liam Leonard – Academic Consultant, California, US
Dr. Liam Leonard (BA; M. Phil; PhD) Researcher and International Academic Consultant, based in California, USA. Previously, Liam has been Chair of the Criminology Association of Ireland and former President of the Sociology Association of Ireland. He lectures Sociology, Criminology, Politics, Human Rights, Penology/Prison Studies, Sustainability and Environmental Issues, Social Movements, Social Capital, Professional Development and Equality & Diversity. The author/editor of over ten books and numerous journal articles, he is Senior Editor of the Ecopolitics Books Series, the Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice Book Series (both with Emerald UK) and Founding Editor of the CRIMSOC Journal of Social Criminology.
Dr. Leonard has edited the 2011 Irish issue of the Prison Journal, as well as special issues of Environmental Politics and the Irish Journal of Sociology and the Criminology issue of the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies. Dr. Leonard was awarded the Sage Publishing Research Excellence Award in New York as well as the NAIRTL Research & Teaching Award in 2012, and has over twelve years experience as an academic and lecturer in the National University of Ireland and the Irish Institute of Technology sectors.
He has given papers at the European Sociology Association, European Criminology Association, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the European Group for Crime & Deviance and the Irish Sociology and Irish Criminology Conferences. Dr. Leonard sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Prison Journal and the Journal of Criminal Psychology. Since June 2013, Dr. Leonard has lived in Orange County, California, where he edits the SOC: Sociology in Orange County resource page.
