Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development: An Integrative Perspective

This book explores the overlapping interests of corporate responsibility and sustainable development, specifically focusing on the dynamics of social change, sustainability 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 lenses. They propose an integrative understanding to tackling global challenges around sustainable development and focus on four themes: contextualisation; 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 readers reconcile ideas presented with real world issues. It will be an essential resource for tutors and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of business, governance and corporate governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and sustainable development, stakeholder theory, business ethics, and politics.

Lez Rayman-Bacchus, PhD, is Visiting Research Fellow at Winchester Business School, University of Winchester, UK, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Padova, Italy, and at the École Supérieure de Commerce de Pau, France.

Philip R Walsh, PhD P.Geo (non-practicing) SPE, is Professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada. He is a registered professional geoscientist and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.