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Offers guidelines, plans and practical examples on how to manage CSR in global business operations. Based on the experiences of 20 diverse, large, medium and small companies, this book constitutes a guidebook and action plan to enable companies of all sizes to manage risk and seek out opportunities for engagement in their overseas operations.
List of contents
1. Corporate social responsibility: a global challenge for business
2. Observing international rules of conduct
3. Tension between observing international rules of conduct and local circumstances
4. Corporate social responsibility in different political cultures
5. Chain responsibility in an international context
6. The contribution made by international companies to the local economy of developing countries
7. The future of corporate social responsibility
8. Ten key practical experiences
Appendix 1 The 'Corporate Social Responsibility in an International Context' programme
Appendix 2 Main guidelines and standards for international corporate responsibility
About the author
Cramer, Jacqueline
Summary
Offers guidelines, plans and practical examples on how to manage CSR in global business operations. Based on the experiences of 20 diverse, large, medium and small companies, this book constitutes a guidebook and action plan to enable companies of all sizes to manage risk and seek out opportunities for engagement in their overseas operations.
Additional text
Cramer offers practical advice on how multinationals, small or large, can strike a balance between meeting global and local stakeholder expectations in terms of their code of conduct, supply chain responsibility and contribution to the local economies in which they are operating. Using practical examples she presents a useful, easy to follow, step-by-step approach, applicable to any company. Chapter 7 outlines four world views on the future of CSR in an international context, emphasising either the global or the local perspective. A final summary chapter helps the busy reader to get a quick overview of the key learnings. A handy guide. - Corporate Citizenship Briefing, January 2007
