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.

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Author / Creator:	Banerjee, Preeta M.
Imprint:	New Delhi : SAGE India, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (217 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Response Books
Subject:	Social responsibility of business. Social entrepreneurship. Corporations -- Environmental aspects. Social entrepreneurship. Corporations -- Environmental aspects. Social responsibility of business. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11284950

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Other authors / contributors:	Shastri, Vanita.
ISBN:	9788132106098 8132106091
Notes:	Print version record.
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 b.
Other form:	Print version: Banerjee, Preeta M. Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability in Business : How Organizations Handle Profits and Social Duties. New Delhi : SAGE India, ©2010 9788132104643

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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. <p>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.</p>
Physical Description:	1 online resource (217 pages)
ISBN:	9788132106098 8132106091