Overview
- Includes recent examples of responsible business conduct from around the world
- Covers continents/countries that have been underrepresented so far in CSR research
- Challenges the mainstream management thinking on the role of business in society
- Incorporates perspectives on up-to-date international policy agendas such as the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals
Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Regional CSR Perspectives
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CSR Policies and Practices in Different Countries
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CSR Projects
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About this book
This book examines topical issues in global corporate social responsibility (CSR) from both scholarly and practical perspectives. It offers a variety of viewpoints and cases from countries around the globe and combines them with current academic knowledge.
Intended for students, academics, and managers wishing to keep abreast of the challenges and opportunities for corporations operating in our ever-more-complex globalized world, this book provides fresh insights into responsible business conduct.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch is Chair of the Association of MBAs [AMBA] and Business Graduates Association [BGA] and heads the Institute for International Marketing Management at WU Vienna. For more than 10 years, he served as founding Dean of the WU Executive Academy. Starting at Deutsche Bank and Procter & Gamble, he continued his career at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, Berkeley. Professorships at the University of Wales (UK) and at Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA) followed.
Bodo serves on business school advisory boards in Europe and Asia. He taught in over 30 countries on six continents, and his research interests span from international marketing strategy to CSR. He published in leading academic journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Bodo was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Marketing and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing and many others. Initially educated in Germany, Bodo obtained two doctorates (in International Marketing Strategy and CSR) from the University of Manchester (UK) and an honorary Ph.D. from Thammasat University (Thailand).
Ilona Szőcs is Assistant Professor at the Chair of International Marketing at University of Vienna (Austria). She holds a PhD in International Marketing Management from Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU, Austria), an MSc in International Business from D’Youville College (USA), and an MSc in Tourism Management from University of Economics in Bratislava (Slovakia). Previously she held positions at WU, Webster Vienna Private University, and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy). Before joining academia, she worked in management consulting, corporate marketing, and in business agencies supporting small and medium-sized enterprises.
Ilona’s research focuses on corporate social responsibility, sustainability & culture, and consumer behavior. Her work appeared in internationally renowned journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of World Business, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, as well as in books, such as the Handbook on Ethics and Marketing by Edward Elgar Publishing, and The New Role of Regional Management by Palgrave Macmillan. Ilona serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Research, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Business Responsibility in a Global Context
Book Subtitle: Challenges to Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Ethics
Editors: Bodo B. Schlegelmilch, Ilona Szőcs
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34261-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34260-9Published: 20 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34263-0Published: 20 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34261-6Published: 19 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 315
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability Management, Business Ethics, International Business, Sustainable Development