Overview
- Analyzes the challenging and opposing factors against CSR programmes and sustainable development
- Addresses the tensions and confusions that exist between the concepts
- Provides case studies and examples that showcase the obstacles and possible solutions
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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Sustainable Development Goals
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Global South
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Strategic
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Samuel O. Idowu is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Corporate Social Responsibility at the London Guildhall Faculty 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 inboth 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 a Vice President of the Global Corporate Governance Institute. He has led several edited books in CSR and is the Editor-in-Chief of two Springer’s reference books – the Encyclopaedia of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility. He is also a Series Editor for Springer’s books on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance. One of his edited books 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. 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 four forewords to 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 De Montfort University, Leicester. He is currently an external examiner at Canterbury Christ Church University and University of Brighton.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Challenges to CSR and Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Root Causes and Evidence from Case Studies
Editors: Stephen Vertigans, Samuel O. Idowu
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62501-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62500-9Published: 25 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62503-0Published: 25 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62501-6Published: 24 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 309
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development, Business Ethics, Sustainability Management, Development and Social Change