Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a much conferred topic in the globalised world, where conventional management is giving way to responsible strategic governance within the highly interactive triad of business, government and society. This book takes a turn as a textbook for students, academicians, scholars, governments, officials, and other interested parties in exploring and appreciating the concept, and examining it within their perspectives for further contribution. CSR is spreading dynamically among organisations specific to their culture, character, process and development. Therefore, it needs to be studied.
While corporations are engaged in vertical focusing and conceptualising pioneering CSR intervention strategies, government too is in the limelight by giving the concept, that otherwise began as an obligation, the supporting legal mandate. This move is expected to provide the corporate sector the desired framework to design and standardise CSR interventional processes within the social system, and improve the much desired ethical transparency. India became the first country to legislate CSR when it regulated CSR in the Companies Act, 2013.
This book highlights all these aspects and more with an intention to give the readers a broad space to manoeuver freely within the evolving concept of CSR in a ‘how to think’ mode and apply it to any business or other organisation innovatively according to the prevailing business environment.
- Streams the concept in the evolving mode with historical perspectives
- Focuses on readers requirement catering for different backgrounds
- Includes reasoned illustrations, caselets and short cases for clarity and practical analysis of the concept
- Examines the concept within the framework of business, government and society
- Discusses the concept within the perimeter of obligation and mandate
- Challenges the thinking process by providing freedom to readers to research further
- Includes a licence key for our digital learning app, CENGAGE app, that provides access to flashcards and additional matter on Format for the Annual Report on CSR Activities to be included in the Board’s Report, Select Questions and Answers—India CSR, Central Vigilance Commission and Anti-corruption Drive, Select Questions and Answers in Parliament—CSR, and Trending CSR
Chapter 1 Introduction: Examining Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 2 Business, Government, Society and CSR
Chapter 3 Globalisation and CSR
Chapter 4 Theories of CSR
Chapter 5 Stakeholders and Business
Chapter 6 CSR Strategy and Implementation
Chapter 7 CSR Metrics: Compliance, Monitoring, Measuring and Reporting
Chapter 8 Government Support, Codes and Guidelines of CSR
Chapter 9 Trends, Drivers and Barriers of CSR
Chapter 10 Concept and Practice of CSR in India
Chapter 11 CSR Initiatives in Corporate India
Case Studies
Appendices
Glossary
Index
Prabhakaran Paleri
Prabhakaran Paleri, Ph.D. is a former director general of Indian Coast Guard continuing as a career professional, academician, author, speaker, researcher, media discussant and scholar in corporate and national security governance. He was in the board of directors besides being an independent external monitor of PSUs. He was the founding head of School of Management Studies, and the chief executive of the technology business incubator at the National Institute of Technology Calicut. Presently he is an adjunct professor in management at the Chinmaya Institute of Technology, Kannur, and a visiting faculty and resource person elsewhere.