Format:
1 Online-Ressource (268 p)
ISBN:
9781786353849
Series Statement:
Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility v.9
Content:
This book investigates how organizational governance is formed around socially responsible and accountable ways of leadership and management. It provides new insights into various issues regarding business management and governance, and points to ways for businesses to make a real change for the betterment of the world
Content:
Front Cover -- Accountability and Social Responsibility: International Perspectives -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Sustainability and Social Responsibility -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Issues of Governance -- Organisational Governance and Strategic CSR to Strengthen Local Supply Chains - Navigating the Maze -- Introduction -- Governance Structures in Businesses -- Sustainable Supply Chain Management and CSR -- Strengthening Local Supply Chains through Strategic CSR -- Governance, Supply Chain Management and CSR in Developing Countries
Content:
Local Businesses in Supply Chains of MNEs - CSR 4.0 -- Agriculture -- Cassava Production -- Sorghum Cultivation in Uganda -- Mining -- Diamond Mining in Botswana -- Diamond Mining in Namibia -- Iron Ore Mining in Guinea -- Promoting Stronger Supply Chains for Strengthened Organisational Governance -- Notes -- References -- The Governance of Sustainable Development -- Introduction -- Sustainability in the Present -- The Brundtland Report -- Global Warming -- Resource Depletion -- Sustainability and Sustainable Development -- Renewable Energy -- Energy Efficiency -- Critiquing Sustainability
Content:
Reacting to Sustainability: Energy Efficiency -- Standardisation and Manufacturing -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The Role of the (Governance of the) Arts in Cultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Music -- Introduction -- Cultural Sustainability and the Role of the (Governance of the) Arts -- The Role of the (Governance of the) Arts in Cultural Sustainability -- Music: An Example of How the Role of (the Governance of the) Art Is Perceived and Its Relation to Cultural Sustainability -- Summing Up -- Critical Assessment -- Conclusion: Suggestions and Recommendations -- Notes
Content:
References -- Organisational Governance and Accountability: Do We Have Anything to Learn from Studying African Traditional Societies? -- Introduction -- Reasons for Comparing African Traditional with Western Systems -- Increase in Knowledge -- Problems with Knowledge Produced by Social Anthropologists -- Problems with Knowledge Produced Regarding Western Organisational Systems -- African Traditional Systems as an Exemplar for Western Organisational Systems -- African Traditional Systems as an Exemplar for Contemporary African Societies
Content:
Difficulties in Pursuing Comparisons between African Traditional Systems and Western Organisational Systems -- Validity in Comparisons between African Traditional Systems and Organisational Systems in the West -- Reliability of Western Scholarship about African Traditional Societies -- Difficulties of Comparing Different Societies: Context and History -- Scholarship Required -- Current Knowledge of Traditional African Societies -- Ways Forward: Comparisons regarding Accountability -- Western Systems -- African Traditional Systems
Content:
Ways Forward: Comparisons regarding African and English Systems of Justice
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786353832
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Accountability and social responsibility Bingley : Emerald, 2016 ISBN 9781786353849
Language:
English
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