CSR and Sustainability: From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Te

Taylor & Francis

CSR and Sustainability \u2013 From the Margins to the Mainstream is a textbook with wide potential usage for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as practitioners, presenting current thinking and practical applications in a number of specific fields in business, including industry sectors, regions and business functions.  > Corporate 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 certification.For the first time, a book brina