Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly important topic in our global society. Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe is the first volume of its kind to bring together twenty-three national perspectives on this issue. Thirty-seven European researchers worked on the book, which provides a comprehensive and structured survey of CSR developments and progress at national levels. An overview and analysis is provided for each country. Topics addressed include business and societal mindsets in the different cultural settings, national drivers for the current development of CSR, and prospects for the individual countries in the future. Furthermore it contains three comprehensive pan-European analyses. The chapters also contain practical information and references to the Internet as well as relevant literature in order to support further research and stimulate business activities in this field. The result is a rather unique collection of essays on the topic of CSR across Europe.

The title of the book derives from the theme of the 20th Conference on Applied Social Sciences of the Professional Association of German Sociologists, held in Munich in May 2019. The question of what concrete contributions social innovations can make to the transition to forms of sustainable coexistence and economic activity is as much the focus of this book as the question of what contribution the social sciences can make. Thus, on the one hand, it is about concrete social innovations that help us to achieve the goal of living and doing business sustainably, but on the other hand, it is also about the way in which the social sciences - not least through appropriate theoretical and methodological training - can be made socially responsible for the success of such socially innovative processes.

Der Titel des Buches geht auf das Thema der 20. Tagung fur Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften des Berufsverbandes Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen zuruck, die im Mai 2019 in Munchen durchgefuhrt wurde. Die Frage, welche Beitrage soziale Innovationen beim UEbergang zu Formen des nachhaltigen Zusammenlebens und Wirtschaftens konkret leisten koennen, steht in diesem Buch ebenso im Mittelpunkt wie die Frage, welchen Beitrag die Sozialwissenschaften leisten koennen. Es geht also zum einen um konkrete soziale Innovationen, die uns bei dem Ziel, nachhaltig zu leben und zu wirtschaften, weiterhelfen, zum anderen aber auch darum, in welcher Weise die Sozialwissenschaften - nicht zuletzt durch entsprechende theoretische und methodische Ausbildung - in die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung fur das Gelingen solcher sozialinnovativen Prozesse genommen werden kann.