Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation

This is one of the few academic books that I truly love! And (yes, even though it's a textbook) I continue to go back and re-read sections of this after my class ended. Honestly, this book completely changed my perspective on CSR and for-profit businesses. I read this book during my Master's degree program and after reading this, have decided to pursue a PhD in the topic. CSR has the potential to transform the business world, the economy, and the environment. Since I have also worked as a academic editor and have written and published a book of my own, I greatly appreciate how well-written and easy to read this book is. It's interesting, light, and thought-provoking. I highly recommend it!

Great book for those who want understand CSR with academic & Businessway.

Very good condition

Got lots of good vocabulary definitions for my class from it!

Excellent resource

I’ve been using this text to support learning in two classes I teach, Managing for Sustainability and Global Corporate Social Responsibility. I found it to be a strong support for my approach, which involves situation studies and roundtable discussions pertinent to each course. David Chandler’s approach works well for many reasons.• Current discussions in our US government particularly render it difficult to focus on public policy influences on sustainability and social responsibility, or to promote ethical actions based on altruism. Business administration students may be biased toward a tendency to perceive profits as paramount, and non-business students attracted to the course topics may end up affirming one another’s perceived goodness without learning how to negotiate corporate-influenced environments.• A vision of perfection may supplant the good that can come of more strategic CSR approaches. A firm’s capacity to genuinely address social challenges ranging from environmental concerns to social equity need not preclude profitability. Corporations’ opening to, and funding of, design and innovation can be important drivers to managing the natural resources left in the world and creating new ways to benefit everyone.• While taking some issue with Milton Friedman’s notions of what business responsibility comprises (solely to make money), Chandler believes that CSR students have much to learn from the Nobel-prize winning economist, and I agree. Profitability, however, does need to be viewed over the long term as much as the short term. What do we profit in a desolate, ruined environment? If corporations come to the table in meaningful discussion surrounding the balance we “sustainers” seek, perhaps we would move in the right direction. There would be no losers, only investors.• Strategic CSR seeks to assure profitability through enhanced relationship with all stakeholders, not just shareholders. As Chandler asserts, CSR is a responsibility among firms to meet the needs of their stakeholders and it’s a responsibility among stakeholders to hold firms to account for their actions.Today’s interplay of business and society is complex and fraught with nuance. Conversations and understanding must evolve further to ensure a sustainable global future. This book offers plenty of material – and outstanding faculty resources – to support an instructor’s approach to helping students learn to mindfully manage people and resources in the world as it is, to the benefit of all: people, planet, and economic stability.

I have taught Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for undergraduate seniors in Corporate Communication and graduate students in Communication with this book for two semesters. One of things I and my students really like is that this book explores CSR in terms of specific perspectives, such as stakeholder, economic concepts, (business) strategy, and sustainability that are integral parts of Corporate Communication and Public Relations. I think it would be a truly compelling and important book for those who are major in Corporate Communication and Public Relations.

My textbook came in really bad condition. I know it said "Used Acceptable" but pages are falling out, I had to tape everything back in. I'd return it but I need it for my class that's already started. Really upset.