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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders in a Global Environment provides faculty and students with a comprehensive, stand-alone text to support traditional and innovative courses at the intersection of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate strategy, and public policy. Integral to the book's unique format is its mix of theory and practical application. After five chapters that provide an overview of the field and its underlying theory, the second half of the book provides a web-based, experiential approach via 24 detailed case studies. The cases provide introductions to a number of contentious debates across the spectrum of CSR topics and culminate with a series of ‘Questions for Discussion and Review' that are designed to stimulate additional investigation and debate.Adopting a stakeholder perspective, the content and format of this textbook defines CSR within the complex global business environment in which multinational corporations operate today. This stakeholder framework recognizes that executives no longer retain exclusive control over the flow of information about their organizations. Whether via YouTube video postings, viral cell phone networks, blogs, or social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, a firm's actions that violate the expectations of its multiple stakeholders are easily disseminated, with potentially devastating consequences for the brand. The difficult task of balancing these often nuanced and conflicting stakeholder expectations is what makes CSR so immediate and demanding for executives.The wide range of issues and cases contained within this book reflect both the scale and scope of CSR for organizations today-a level of attention that can only increase as societal expectations regarding issues of ethics, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility grow and evolve.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Figures
• Glossary of Terms - CSR Terms - Strategy Terms
• Foreword
• Preface
• Plan of the Book
• Acknowledgments
• Part I Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
• 1 What Is CSR?
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corporate Strategy and CSR
• The Evolution of CSR
• The Culture and Context
• A Moral Argument for CSR
• A Rational Argument for CSR
• An Economic Argument for CSR
• Why Is CSR Important?
• Why Is CSR Increasingly Relevant Today?
• Beyond Trends
• Questions for Discussion and Review
• 2 Corporate Strategy: A Stakeholder Perspective
• What Is Strategy?
• Competing Strategy Perspectives
• The Resources Perspective
• The Industry Perspective
• A Stakeholder Perspective
• Prioritizing Stakeholders
• The Integration of Strategy and CSR
• Strategic CSR
• A Stakeholder Perspective in Action
• Questions for Discussion and Review
• 3 How Much Does CSR Matter?
• CSR: A Corporate Responsibility?
• CSR: A Stakeholder Responsibility?
• The Walmart Conundrum
• Is Walmart Good for Society?
• Walmart Is No.1 Today
• Walmart and Sustainability
• So, How Much Does CSR Matter?
• CSR in Implementation
• 4 The Strategic Context of CSR
• CSR Through a Strategic Lens
• Firm Strategy and the CSR Filter
• A Firm's Environmental Context
• The Five Driving Forces of CSR
• The Market for Social Responsibility
• Strategic CSR
• Implementing CSR
• 5 Implementation: The Integration of CSR Into Strategy and Culture
• The CSR Threshold
• CSR-An Integral Aspect of the Firm?
• Implementation: Short to Medium Term
• Implementation: Medium to Long Term
• Implementation: Building CSR into the Organizational Culture
• Part II CSR: ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES
• Chapter 6 Organizational Issues and Case Studies
• Chapter 7 Economic Issues and Case Studies
• Chapter 8 Societal Issues and Case Studies
• Subject Index
• Company Index
• About the Authors
• Employee Relations Timberland
• Executive Compensation Stock Options
• Shareholder Activism SRI Funds
• Social Entrepreneurship The Body Shop
• The Corporation Primark vs. Marks & Spencer
• Wages McDonald's
• Chapter 7 Economic Stakeholders
• Economic Issues and Case Studies
• Issues Case Studies
• Fair Trade Starbucks
• Finance Citigroup
• Financial Crisis Countrywide
• Microfinance Grameen Bank
• Patents AIDs
• Product Safety Monsanto
• Profit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
• Supply Chain Nike
• Chapter 8 Societal Stakeholders
• Societal Issues and Case Studies
• Issues Case Studies
• Accountability ISO 26000
• Compliance Paper vs. Plastic
• Environmental Sustainability e-waste
• Ethics Ethics and Compliance Officers
• Media CNN
• NGOs Product (RED)
• Religion Islamic Finance
• Stakeholder Relations Ben & Jerry's
• Subject Index
• Company Index
• About the Authors