Social responsibility and environmental sustainability in business : how organizations handle profits and social duties
Social responsibility and environmental sustainability in business : how organizations handle profits and social duties
- Los Angeles : Response Books, 2010.
- xxxii, 184 p. : illustrations ;
Included Index.
Foreword : Inspiring people to engage in social entrepreneurship / Jugnu Jain, Raj Melville, and Rakesh Pandey --
From corporate social responsibility to global social entrepreneurship / Vanita Shastri and Preeta M. Banerjee --
Defining metrics for social impact / Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande [and others] --
Selecting and setting corporate sustainability measurements / Duncan White --
Lessons from working with the government of India : the story of Pratham / Leona Christy and Vikas Taneja --
Social entrepreneurship across national boundaries / Behzad J. Larry, Azad Oommen, and Venkatesh "Venky" Raghavendra --
The evolution of Ubuntu at work : helping women micro entrepreneurs escape the poverty trap / Vibha Pingle --
Social entrepreneurship in a traditionally profit-centered industry / Steven F. Young --
Environmental sustainability : managing stakeholders through education / Vithal V. Deshpande --
The clean technology industry : social entrepreneurship and sustainability / Daniel Wengrovitz and Preeta M. Banerjee --
Greening the built environment / Ameeta Soni --
Developing green innovation : DeCopier paper cleaning products / Sushil Bhatia --
New beginnings in age-old philosophies / Preeta M. Banerjee and Vanita Shastri.
Using in-depth and contemporary case studies, the book demonstrates how to define, measure, and achieve socially and environmentally sustainable growth. It inspires social entrepreneurs to build new models of sustainable growth, to scale existing solutions, and to create new public-private partnerships.
9788132104643 (pbk.) 8132104641
Social responsibility of business.
Social entrepreneurship.
Corporations.
658.408 / SOC
Included Index.
Foreword : Inspiring people to engage in social entrepreneurship / Jugnu Jain, Raj Melville, and Rakesh Pandey --
From corporate social responsibility to global social entrepreneurship / Vanita Shastri and Preeta M. Banerjee --
Defining metrics for social impact / Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande [and others] --
Selecting and setting corporate sustainability measurements / Duncan White --
Lessons from working with the government of India : the story of Pratham / Leona Christy and Vikas Taneja --
Social entrepreneurship across national boundaries / Behzad J. Larry, Azad Oommen, and Venkatesh "Venky" Raghavendra --
The evolution of Ubuntu at work : helping women micro entrepreneurs escape the poverty trap / Vibha Pingle --
Social entrepreneurship in a traditionally profit-centered industry / Steven F. Young --
Environmental sustainability : managing stakeholders through education / Vithal V. Deshpande --
The clean technology industry : social entrepreneurship and sustainability / Daniel Wengrovitz and Preeta M. Banerjee --
Greening the built environment / Ameeta Soni --
Developing green innovation : DeCopier paper cleaning products / Sushil Bhatia --
New beginnings in age-old philosophies / Preeta M. Banerjee and Vanita Shastri.
Using in-depth and contemporary case studies, the book demonstrates how to define, measure, and achieve socially and environmentally sustainable growth. It inspires social entrepreneurs to build new models of sustainable growth, to scale existing solutions, and to create new public-private partnerships.
9788132104643 (pbk.) 8132104641
Social responsibility of business.
Social entrepreneurship.
Corporations.
658.408 / SOC