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Business Schools, Leadership and Sustainable Development Goals: The
Future of Responsible Management Education is the sixth book in the
series Citizenship and Sustainability in Organizations. It contains
chapters from various scholars and practitioners in the field of
responsible management education (RME). Through introspection,
through celebrating successes and learning from failures
(retrospection) and through looking forward (prospection), it aims
to inspire a future of management education and leadership
development that demonstrates its relevance to sustainable
development. In doing so, it touches upon the grand societal
challenges of our time, as illustrated by the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals, and discusses how business schools,
and other providers of management education, could and should
contribute to overcoming these challenges. It argues that
management education needs to educate future leaders in a way that
no longer hampers but truly accelerates the process of sustainable
development. This book offers a collection of thought-provoking
ideas, vivid stories (including personal accounts and experiences),
and appealing and engaged forecasts, visions and ideas about
management education and leadership development for sustainability.
Hence, it is a must-read for anyone interested in or involved in
RME.
Over the last ten years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has
grown from being criticised as a management fad to being endorsed
as good business practice by the majority of the world's leading
companies. It has also become ever more complex; and the majority
of companies are now in need of clarity and guidance to actively
engage with CSR in practice, to develop strategies that reflect the
unique context in which each company operates and to embed CSR
within their values.
This book provides a rich overview and takes a closer look at the
current state of theory and practice in the field of sustainable
business models. The chapters in this book examine and analyze
existing and new approaches towards sustainable business models and
showcase the implementation of sustainable business through both
quantitative and qualitative studies, including several case
studies and many practical examples. It approaches these issues
from the standpoints of diverse business disciplines to yield new
insights and ideas that are relevant from both an academic and
professional perspective. In its essence, the book examines how
firms' value creation processes can be driven by sustainability and
social responsibility and how this impacts business and society.
Readers will find a range of sustainable business models that have
been employed and are being pioneered in various industries around
the globe - which are thoroughly investigated and discussed, and
put into a comprehensive conceptual framework.
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the
ISO 26000 standard for social responsibility (SR) in businesses and
corporations. In addition to discussing the standard's focus on
various stakeholders and seven core topics, the book underscores
its key aspects and most debatable issues, with a focus on its
connection to sustainable business practices. It presents numerous
cases and practical examples of the ISO 26000's implementation and
discusses the outcomes and lessons learned, in terms of the extent
to which organizations can envision practicing CSR in ways that fit
their activities, stakeholders and environment. Lately, the ISO
26000 has proved to offer an interesting and important approach to
the standardization of (corporate) social responsibility.
Approached and perceived as a voluntary standard that does not
include any specific requirements, determining the best way to
implement and work with it involved a considerable amount of
experimentation. This book showcases the current state of
application and discusses how different countries have developed
their own specific versions of the standard, which organizations
can use to certify their SR processes.
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