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This book provides a comprehensive and multi-facetted
analysis of the current state of social-responsibility education in various European
countries. It explores the different approaches toward CSR education across
Europe by identifying each country's current practices and university courses,
and by revealing the effect of these methods on future generations of leaders. Using
a quantitative research methodology, the book presents comparisons of the
current nature and implications of CSR education in a sample of 10 business
schools from Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain and Turkey.
About the author
Duygu Turker is an Assistant Professor at the
Department of Business Administration in Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey. She
has a BA in Business Administration at Dokuz Eylul University, an MSc in
Environmental Sciences at Ankara University, an MBA at Dokuz Eylul University,
and she received her PhD at Dokuz Eylul University in the Department of Public
Administration. She has participated in various national and international projects
either as a researcher or administrator. Her research interests include CSR,
business ethics, inter-organizational relations and entrepreneurship.
Ceren Altuntas is an Assistant Professor at the
Department of International Logistics Management, Yasar University, Izmir,
Turkey. She graduated from the Department of Business Administration of Dokuz
Eylul University in 2002. She has a Master’s degree in Total Quality Management
and PhD degree in Business Administration from Dokuz Eylul University. Prior to
joining academia, she worked for several firms in the logistics sector
(including Arkas Holding - Hapag Lloyd and Trans Union Logistics) from 2002 to
2009. Her research interests include sustainability, ethics, supply chain
management, quality management and logistics.
Samuel O Idowu is a Senior
Lecturer in Accounting at London Metropolitan University, UK and also a
Professor of CSR at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China. He
researches in the fields of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Corporate
Governance Sustainability, Ethics and Accounting. He is a freeman of the City
of London. He has led several edited books in CSR and is the Editor-in-Chief of
two Springer’s reference books – the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social
Responsibility and the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility
(forthcoming). He is a Series Editor for Springer’s books on CSR,
Sustainability, Ethics and Governance. One of his edited books was ranked 18th
in 2010 Top 40 Sustainability Books by, Cambridge University, Sustainability
Leadership Programme. He is on the Editorial Boards of International Business
Administration Journal and Amfiteatru Economic Journal.
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive and multi-facetted
analysis of the current state of social-responsibility education in various European
countries. It explores the different approaches toward CSR education across
Europe by identifying each country's current practices and university courses,
and by revealing the effect of these methods on future generations of leaders. Using
a quantitative research methodology, the book presents comparisons of the
current nature and implications of CSR education in a sample of 10 business
schools from Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, the Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain and Turkey.
