Social responsibility and environmental sustainability in business : how organizations handle profits and social duties

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Author:

Banerjee, Preeta M.

ISBN:

9788132104643

Publication Information:

Los Angeles : Response Books, 2010.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Social responsibility of business.

Social entrepreneurship.

Corporations -- Environmental aspects.

Added Author:

Banerjee, Preeta M.

Shastri, Vanita.

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Summary

In this age of global economic crises, the need to renew our commitment to social issues becomes even more urgent. Reduction in public and private spending on social programmes throws up further challenges for the sustenance of development efforts. The book advocates countering this trend through ′global social entrepreneurship′ and the use of innovative, inexpensive and locally customized solutions.

Using in-depth and contemporary case studies, the book demonstrates how to define, measure and achieve socially and environmentally sustainable growth. The book inspires social entrepreneurs to build new models of sustainable growth, to scale existing solutions and to create new public-private partnerships.