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- Provides comprehensive access to basic concepts and ideas
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- Serves as a wide-ranging overview for a global audience of scholars, practitioners, government and NGO officials
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Table of contents (52 entries)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Social Aspects
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About this book
issue of slavery in the modern age.
The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility is a comprehensive, authoritative overview of CSR in all its forms, providing a multiplicity of interdisciplinary tertiary research from esteemed academics in their fields. It will cover everything from the theoretical basis for CSR, to environmental aspects of CSR, including responses to climate change and resource depletion; society and CSR, including work-life balance and modern slavery; regional aspects of CSR (reviewing CSR in both developed and developing countries, and providing an in-depth examination of Latin America, Africa and the Middle East).
It is aimed as a resource for a global scholarly audience looking for a detailed presentation of major
accounts of corporate social responsibility on an international scale.
Editors and Affiliations
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De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
David Crowther
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Social Responsibility Research Network
Shahla Seifi
About the editors
David Crowther B.A., M.B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., PGCE, FCMA, CGMA, CPFA, MCMI
Professor, University of Bedfordshire, UK; London
School of Commerce, UK; Ansted University, Malaysia;
Shanghai University, Chinawww.davideacrowther.org; www.srrnet.org
David Crowther is expert in business administration, a games theoretician, and a psychologist while also a qualified accountant who has worked as an accountant, systems specialist, and general manager in local government, industry, and commerce for 20 years. After a number of years in the financial services sector, including a spell as divisional managing director during which he set up and ran a credit card scheme, he decided to leave the business world and become an academic. In 1994, he joined Aston University and there obtained a Ph.D. in 1999 for research into corporate social performance. In 2001, he became the first professor of corporate social responsibility in the world.
David has published more than 60 books and has also contributed several hundred articles to academic, business, and professional journals and to edited book collections. He has also spoken widely at conferences and seminars worldwide and acted as a consultant to a wide range of government, professional, and commercial organizations. In 2002, he established the Social Responsibility Research Network, an international body which now has 1000 members. He is listed in Who’s Who in the World and various other directories. His current research focuses on sustainability and governance in the modern environment.
Shahla Seifi B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D.
Secretary and Conferences Chair, Social Responsibility
Research Network
Visiting Professor, Shanghai University, China;
Ansted University, Malaysia; and various universities around the world
www.srrnet.org
Shahla is an engineer by background and worked for over 20 years at the National Standards Institute of Iran. There, she was responsible for assessing products, developing national standards, and international affairs. After a spell in Malaysia, she relocated to the UK in 2013 where she is now based. A British and Iranian citizen, she continues to publish under her maiden name of Shahla Seifi. She currently researches, writes, and runs the Social Responsibility Research Network.
Shahla has taught extensively – both students and managers – and translated much material into Farsi. As a qualified physical fitness trainer, she led courses in Tehran for a number of years. She edits or is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and book series around the world, and consults and speaks at various locations. Shahla has published more than 30 books (in either English or Farsi) and translated several into Farsi; she has published over 50 articles in English as well as numerous articles in Farsi. Her current research is concerned with extractive mineral depletion and sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility
Editors: David Crowther, Shahla Seifi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42465-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42464-0Published: 16 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42465-7Published: 16 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 1365
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Environmental Management, Employee Health and Wellbeing, Sustainability Management, Sustainability Management