CSR and Sustainability - 9781783534449

Taylor & Francis

CSR and SustainabilityFrom the Margins to the Mainstream: A Textbook\nAuthor(s): Michael Hopkins\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Greenleaf Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781783534449, 978-1783534449\nSynopsis\nCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is steadily moving from the margins to the mainstream across the spectrum of private companies, NGOs and the public sector. It has grown from being a concept embraced by a small number of companies such as The Body Shop in the early 1990s to a widespread global movement. At its weakest level, it is represented by a few philanthropic gestures by organizations but, when applied in its most complete form, it can steer the organization or sector to deliver a fully fledged, system-wide, multi-stakeholder operation, accompanied by multiple types of [url] the first time, a book brings together key issues relating to CSR as they apply to different aspects of business; it is not another generalist title about .