Dilemmas in Responsible Investment
Céline Louche and Steve Lydenberg
This book examines the daily problems of responsible investment practitioners. It emphasises the importance of asking the right questions as well as getting the right answers; and of process as well as product. It raises questions about the very purpose of investment and the responsibilities of investors, both economic and societal.
ISO 26000
The Business Guide to the new Standard on Social Responsibility
Lars Moratis and Timo Cochius
Provides a guide to ISO 26000, examining its development, the topics covered and how key themes are dealt with. This book includes tools and benchmarking exercises, illustrative material, case examples, and interviews. It also contains an overview of the actions and expectations of organizations that wish to work in accordance with ISO 26000.
SEE Change
Making the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise Economy
Sandra Waddock and Malcolm McIntosh
This book is about the myriad problems that we face and the systemic changes that are necessary for all enterprises in whatever sector and however constituted to operate within sustainable limits, to lower their ecological footprint, to enhance social equity, and to develop a sense of futurity.
Leadership for Sustainability
An Action Research Approach
Judi Marshall, Gill Coleman and Peter Reason
Those who advocate moving towards sustainability debate how change can be achieved. This book focuses on what it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety of organisational and social positions, and considers the consequences of different strategies and practices for influencing change.
Embedded Sustainability
The Next Big Competitive Advantage
Chris Laszlo and Nadya Zhexembayeva
This book explains and predicts how companies can better leverage global challenges for enduring profit and sustained growth. It introduces and explains the marquis concept of embedded sustainability: the incorporation of environmental, health, and social value into the heartbeat of the product life cycle with no trade-off in price or quality.
Valuing Corporate Responsibility
How Do Investors Really Use Corporate Responsibility Information?
Rory Sullivan
‘Responsible investment’ has become mainstream. But, despite the volume of CR reports, reporters aren’t giving investors the information they need. This book aims to get reporters and the investment community speaking a common language.
CSR for HR
A Necessary Partnership for Advancing Responsible Business Practices
Elaine Cohen
This book provides HR managers with a thorough understanding of the drivers and principles of CSR and a practical step-by-step guide to the way CSR interfaces with every HR function. Recruitment, compensation, training, employee communications, employee well-being, health & safety, employee rights, involvement in the community and employee impacts.
Sustainability in Austerity
How Local Government Can Deliver During Times of Crisis
Philip Monaghan
Sustainability in Austerity has been written to provide local leaders with a lifebelt in these turbulent times. It empowers local authorities to address the challenges they now face – by offering a treasure chest of cost-neutral and powerful ways for leaders in local government to advance sustainability as nations emerge from the global recession.
The New Rules of Green Marketing
Strategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding
Jacquelyn A. Ottman
This book captures the best of the author’s previous groundbreaking books on green marketing and takes the content into the 21st century. Whereas earlier works focused on readers who were less familiar with green initiatives, this work squarely focuses on a new generation of marketers who likely themselves grew up with an appreciation of sustainability.
