The Civil Corporation
To meet the challenge of sustainable development, the global business community will have to undergo radical change – innovating to evolve its cultures, competencies, and ultimately its purpose. The Civil Corporation exlores how far we should expect corporations to imporve their social and environmental performance, and how best to realize this potential. Winner of the s Academy of Management’s Social Issues in Management Book Award, 2006
“The intricate analysis … makes a powerful case for business to reassess their values, relationships and processes”– The Financial Times
Tomorrow’s History – Selected Writings 1993-2003
An anthology of writing from the frontlines of development of the corporate responsiblity movement. As one of the architects of the burgeoning CR movement, Simon Zadek has always been a prolific writer and contributor of ideas. The evolution of his thoughts on new economics, corporate accountability, stakeholder dialogue, social and ethical auditing and reporting have attracted consistent attention never more than today.
In this unique anthology, Zadek crystallises his key work from the last decade into a coherent and fascinating whole, which, read together, provide a context, lens and early history lesson on how CR has become one of the defining business issues of the 21st century.
Mediating Sustainability: Growing Policy from the Grassroots
This book explores how mediation between grassroots and policy formation processes can and does work in practice by focusing on experiences in Latin America, which promote sustainable agriculture and rural development. The contributions to this book draw on the work of researchers, activists, farmers and policy makers through concrete evidence and appraisal.
An Economics of Utopia: Democraftising Scarcity
An Economics of Utopia offers a Utopian approach to economic theory and practice that substitutes a concept of efficiency concerned with participatory rights ub decision-making processes, rather than the effective end use of resources. The practicality of this book is explored through the illustration of three applications to participatory research techniques, alternative economic indicators, and democratic pricing.
Building Corporate Accountability
This is the first book to address the practice of social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting, and its implications for the development of corporate social, ethical and environmental responsibility. It includes ten case studies, as well as an historical overview of the development of social and ethical accounting and reporting. The editors introduce a methodological framework that allows emerging practice worldwide to be analysed, understood and improved; and the case studies are written by the practitioners, giving insight into the experiences described.
