Global challenges of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development: an introduction.

Vertigans, Stephen; Idowu, Samuel O.

Abstract

Over recent years, the concepts, and associated practices, of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development have been subject to considerable challenges. These challenges range from basic questions concerning their purpose and organizational intent through to relevance to contemporary issues and suitability for both local and global applications. We can perhaps condense these challenges, into the questions—are corporate social responsibility and sustainable development meeting expectations, if not why not and what needs to change in order for their conceptual promises to be realized? These are questions that were formulated during the editing and as such were not set for the book contributors. Nevertheless, each author has in their own way explored these questions and in the process have provided us with some fascinating insights both into challenges and potential solutions.

Citation

VERTIGANS, S. and IDOWU, S.O. 2021. Global challenges of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development: an introduction. In Vertigans, S. and Idowu, S.O. (eds.) Global challenges to CSR and sustainable development: root causes and evidence from case studies. Cham: Springer [online], pages ix-xiv. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62501-6

• Online Publication Date: Feb 24, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jul 5, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 5, 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: ix-xiv
• Series Title: CSR, sustainability, ethics and governance
• Series ISSN: 2196-7075; 2196-7083
• Book Title: Global challenges of CSR and sustainable development: root causes and evidence from case studies
• ISBN: 9783030625009; 9783030625030
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62501-6
• Keywords: Global north; Global south; Climate change; Natural resources sustainable protection; Opposition to sustainable development; Corporate Social responsibility; Criticism of CSR; Challenges of CSR; Sustainablity
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2064278
• Contract Date: Feb 24, 2021