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Social Responsibility / November 2024
A recent Forbes article explores how corporate social responsibility has evolved beyond checkbook philanthropy (2024). Corporations are beginning to recognize their unique relationships with the communities and environments they impact and are turning towards initiatives with lasting change through sustainability projects and community involvement. For November 2024, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine Social Responsibility.
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Networks for Social Impact
A broad review of how nonprofits, businesses, and governments work together to tackle social problems.
Who Cares
The first comprehensive map of the social safety net, public and private, in the United States.
The Impact Challenge
Explores the role of businesses in delivering positive societal and financial outcomes as they seek to bridge the gap between short-term organizational behaviors and long-range sustainability commitments.
Corporate Volunteering, Responsibility and Employee Entrepreneurship
Explains the relationships between corporate volunteering and employee entrepreneurship in organizations. It combines two extremely vivid fields of research: entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility.
Business Ethics and Sustainability
Equips readers with the knowledge, insights and key capabilities to understand and practice business activities from ethical and sustainable vantage points.
Organizing for Sustainable Development
Provides readers with an in-depth understanding of how existing businesses and new hybrid organizations can achieve sustainable development to bring about an improved society, marking a key contribution to the literature in this field.
7 Secrets of Highly Effective Social Impact Communicators
Provides a pathway for empathy, clarity and persuasive communication to advance the social impact work that can help people, their families and society.
Business, Society and Global Governance
A thoroughly revised and updated new edition that should ensure this continues to be the go-to textbook introducing business-government relations in the institutional context of the United States.
Social Impact, Organizations and Society
Represents endeavors to comprehensively explore the essence of social impact. The editors aim to elucidate its definition, scope, measurement and implementation.
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility
Adds to the current debate on the societal-level impacts of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This edited volume offers conceptual and empirical contributions highlighting various dimensions of CSR impacts.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Presents selected theoretical and practical aspects of corporate social responsibility and sustainability, with particular emphasis on the journey (transition) from values to impact.
Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee Wellbeing
Unravels the profound influence of CSR on the multifaceted dimensions of employee wellness.