The Components of Sustainable Development: Engagement and Partnership (Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance)

This book focuses on the application of sustainable development principles through consultation with, and partnerships between commerce and the community. Offering international perspectives, the authors show that the issues are global and that we can best arrive at solutions through a synthesis of these various perspectives. The book also examines changes to corporate and institutional behavior and discusses the extent to which the focus has changed, making it necessary to consider new approaches to our understanding of sustainability and differing effects in practice.

This approach is based on the tradition of the Social Responsibility Research Network, which in its 17-year history has sought to broaden the discourse and to treat all research as inter-related and relevant to business. This book consists of the best contributions from the 17th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and 8th Organisational Governance Conference, held in Bangalore, India in September 2018

David Crowther is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, United Kingdom, and President of the Social Responsibility Research Network. His interests lie in the fields of governance, sustainability, and accountability. He is founding editor of the Social Responsibility Journal, and has published 50 books and over 400 articles.

Shahla Seifi is based at the University of Derby, United Kingdom. Her research centres around sustainable development, corporate sustainability, governance in the global market, and the application of game theory to sustainability problems.