Global Challenges in Responsible Business

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Global Challenges in Responsible Business
Authors and Contributors      Edited by N. Craig Smith
Edited by C. B. Bhattacharya
Edited by David Vogel
Edited by David I. Levine
SeriesCambridge Companions to Management
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:332
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152
Category/GenreBusiness ethics
ISBN/Barcode 9780521735889
ClassificationsDewey:658.408
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 19 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 29 July 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Corporate responsibility has gone global. It has secured the attention of business leaders, governments and NGOs to an unprecedented extent. Increasingly, it is argued that business must play a constructive role in addressing massive global challenges. Business is not responsible for causing most of the problems associated with, for example, extreme poverty and hunger, child mortality and HIV/AIDS. However, it is often claimed that business has a responsibility to help ameliorate many of these problems and, indeed, it may be the only institution capable of effectively addressing some of them. Global Challenges in Responsible Business addresses the implications for business of corporate responsibility in the context of globalization and the social and environmental problems we face today. Featuring research from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, it focuses on three major themes: embedding corporate responsibility, corporate responsibility and marketing, and corporate responsibility in developing countries.

Author Biography

N. Craig Smith is the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility at INSEAD, France. C. B. Bhattacharya is the E.ON Chair Professor in Corporate Responsibility at the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin. David Vogel is the Solomon Lee Professor of Business Ethics at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. David I. Levine is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.