Sustainable economy corporate, social and environmental responsibility /

• Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
• Other Authors: Kao, Raymond W. Y.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2010.
• Subjects: Social responsibility of business.; Sustainable development.; Social entrepreneurship.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/7350#t=toc

This book explains how corporate social responsibility is linked to long-term sustainability of an economy and that the activities of an organization should not be only for its self-interest, but must also be honed for the benefit of common good. A major approach the book advocates is corporate deci...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Raymond W. Y. Kao
• I. Corporate social responsibility and development. 1. Corporate social responsibility / Raymond W. Y. Kao and Rowland R. Kao. 2. On the dialectics of sustained (capitalist) development "from within" / J. Hanns Pichler. 3. Fostering sustainability in family firms / Alan L. Carsrud and Malin Brännback
• II. The challenge. 4. Poverty : a social disgrace and dilemma / Franco Gandolfi and Philip A. Neck. 5. Sustainability and health care / Catherine Popadiuk. 6. Minimization of resource drains and environmental damage / Peter Hing. 7. Building a sustainable future for ourselves and our common home / Mirian Vilela
• III. Entrepreneurship education. 8. Sustainability and entrepreneurship education at the university level / Lloyd W. Fernald. 9. From entrepreneurship to stewardship-based economics / Raymond W. Y. Kao, Rowland R. Kao and Kenneth R. Kao
• IV. Entrepreneurship and small venture development for sustainability. 10. Small is still beautiful and sustainable / Wee-Liang Tan. 11. Innovation and enterprise sustainability / Gary Oster. 12. Toward sustainable economic development : an experiment in West Africa / Leo Paul Dana. 13. Landscape entrepreneurship : lessons from the Mont Saint Hilaire Nature Centre / Emmanuel Raufflet ... [et al.]. 14. The candle of hope / Raymond W. Y. Kao.