Principles and Strategies to Balance Ethical, Social and Environmental Concerns with Corporate Requirements (Hardcover)

Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

ISBN 10: 1781906270 / ISBN 13: 9781781906279

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2013

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Hardcover. Advances in Sustainability & Environmental Justice Volume 12: Principles and Strategies to Balance Ethical Social and Environmental Concerns with Corporate Requirements brings together a range of practitioners and academics from the world of business who examine corporate social responsibility in policy and practice in a series of case studies from across the globe. This volume, co-edited by Dr. Liam Leonard and Dr. Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, is the second in the series (formerly Advances in Ecopolitics) dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility within the scope of international business. Both books in this pair of studies bring together contributions from authors located in 13 countries in the 5 continents, and this second volume on the topic specifically incorporates academic works from 21 researchers representing institutions from Australia, Canada, Colombia, England, Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Romania, and the United States. As such, these studies represent one of the most comprehensive collections on contemporary business practices in the significant area of Corporate Social Responsibility. This is the second in a two volume study of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and corporate behaviour from around the world, taking in viewpoints from five continents and over ten countries. These case studies represent one of the most comprehensive collections on contemporary business practices in the significant area of Corporate Social Respo Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Principles and Strategies to Balance Ethical, Social and Environmental Concerns with Corporate Requirements (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781906270
• ISBN 13: 9781781906279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Advances in Sustainability & Environmental Justice Volume 12: Principles and Strategies to Balance Ethical Social and Environmental Concerns with Corporate Requirements brings together a range of practitioners and academics from the world of business who examine corporate social responsibility in policy and practice in a series of case studies from across the globe. This volume co-edited by Dr. Liam Leonard and Dr. Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez is the second of this series dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the scope of International Business.
This specific edited volume comprises ten chapters, and incorporates academic works from 21 researchers representing institutions from Australia, Canada, Colombia, England, Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Romania, and the United States.

About the Author

Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez
Liam Leonard

Dr. Liam Leonard  Researcher and International Academic Consultant, 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. Dr. Leonard was the senior academic and primary instructor on the award winning Custodial Care Program, which trained over 1,000 recruits in a humane approach to prison and corrections for the Irish Prison Service. 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.