Editors:
- Provides a detailed and balanced vision of CSR in emerging and established countries
- Includes various case studies, which are suitable for teaching, research and practice
- Covers a broad range of industries and functions
Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book is a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of sustainability and corporate responsibility, provides student teaching cases for courses on CSR and sustainable management, and offers blueprints for professionals seeking guidance and inspiration on their path towards responsible business operations.
Editors and Affiliations
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Guildhall School of Business & Law, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Samuel O. Idowu
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Department of Economics & Business Administration, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
Cătălina Sitnikov
About the editors
Samuel o Idowu is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Corporate Social Responsibility at London Guildhall School of Business & Law, London Metropolitan University, UK. He researches in the fields of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Accounting and has published in both professional and academic journals since 1989. He is a freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Samuel is the Deputy CEO and First Vice President of the Global Corporate Governance Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of three Springer’s reference books – the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management (forthcoming), he is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility (IJCSR), Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA) and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Responsible Management in Emerging Economies (IJRMEE). He is also a Series Editor for Springer’s books on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance. One of his edited books won the most Outstanding Business Reference book Award of the American Library Association (ALA) in 2016 and another was ranked 18th in the 2010 Top 40 Sustainability Books by, Cambridge University, Sustainability Leadership Programme. Samuel is a member of the Committee of the Corporate Governance Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management (BAM). He is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Business Administration, Canada and Amfiteatru Economic Journal, Romania and a few more. Samuel has delivered a number of Keynote Speeches at national and international conferences and workshops on CSR and has on two occasions 2008 and 2014 won Emerald’s Highly Commended Literati Network Awards for Excellence. To date, Samuel has edited several books in the field of CSR, Sustainability and Governance and has written ten forewords to CSR books. Samuel has served as an external examiner to the following UK Universities – Sunderland, Ulster, Anglia Ruskin, Plymouth, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, Sheffield Hallam University and Leicester De Montfort University. He has also examined PhD Theses for a few non-UK Universities from across the globe.
Catalina Sitnikov, is a PhD Professor at University of Craiova in Romania, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. She holds a doctorate degree in Management since 2000, habilitation title in Management since 2014 and since February 2015 she has been a PhD supervisor in Management. She was for 3 years a visiting lecturer at Helsinki University of xxi Technology, Lahti Center in Finland. Since 1995, she has been teaching undergraduate, master’s and PhD students. She teaches Quality Management, Total Quality Management and Management. Her main research areas include: management, strategic management, and mostly quality management, instruments and models specific to the stages of quality planning, control and improvement, quality management strategies, ISO standards, CSR from the perspective of specific standards and instruments.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Essential Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility
Book Subtitle: New Insights and Recent Issues
Editors: Samuel O. Idowu, Cătălina Sitnikov
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39229-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39228-4Published: 07 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39231-4Published: 07 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39229-1Published: 06 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 246
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Business Strategy/Leadership