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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Practices: Toward Economic, Environmental, and Social Balance
ISBN: 9781003146414
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited

This volume explores the management concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interactions with their stakeholders. This practice also benefits the company and helps it to reach its strategic goals. This volume takes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives to exploring a multitude of themes in CSR, including corporate social responsibility in conjunction with employee quality of life, globalization, industry sustainability, environmental accountability, academic spin-off, education, empowerment of women, corporate reputation, expenditures for CSR purposes, and more.

The chapter authors consider the impacts and outcomes along with the emerging challenges of incorporating CSR in an organization's business strategy. This volume is an important academic journey into some of the most relevant yet understudied issues of today.

This volume will be a valuable resource for faculty and students in business as well as for industry professionals, researchers, and others.

Nilanjan Ray, PhD, is Associate Professor and Centre Coordinator, Centre for Research of Business Analytics, Department of Management, School of Business and Economics, Adamas University, West Bengal, India. He has 10 years of teaching experience at the university level and six years of research experience. He has guided over 50 postgraduate student projects. Dr. Ray has published over 60 research papers in national and international refereed, peer-reviewed journals, and proceedings and has edited eight research handbooks published by Springer, IGI Global USA, and Apple Academic Publisher/CRC Press. He is also a reviewer for the Tourism Management Journal of Service Marketing, Journal of Business and Economics, and Research Journal of Business and Management Accounting. He is an editorial board member of several journals as well. He has also chaired a technical session at the IJAS Conference 2012 at Harvard University, USA.

Abhijeet Bag is Assistant Professor in the Department of Commerce, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, West Bengal, India. He formerly worked at Adamas University and Serampore College as an assistant professor. Presently he is pursuing a PhD from the University of Calcutta, India. He awarded his MPhil and MCom (Accounting and Finance) from the University of Calcutta. He has also qualified UGC NET and WBCSC SET in the year 2017. Mr. Bag is a life member of the Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation and Commerce Alumni Association, Calcutta University, India.