Corporate Social Responsibility de Madhumita Chatterji

Corporate Social Responsibility

Madhumita Chatterji

Corporate Social Responsibility is a comprehensive textbook designed for post graduate management students. It revolves around the premise that CSR is management of a company's impact on its stakeholders, the environment, and the community in which it operates and is more than just a philanthropic activity for some charitable causes. The book begins by providing an understanding of CSR, its evolution, and stakeholder concept, and then moves on elaborate on roles of various institutions and CSR models. It then provides a framework for rating CSR and discusses sustainability and its challenges, and discusses CSR in the Indian and global arena. The book includes a unique comparative study of CSR in different countries with actual data collected. It finally ends with a discussion on the future of CSR. The book would be useful to management students and also aid professionals in understanding that CSR is not philanthropy and corporations have to move beyond the financial bottom-line to the social and environmental bottom-line.

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Madhumita Chatterji is a Professor with IFIM Business School, Bangalore and Principal of IFIM College. She is also the chairperson of CSR Centre at the institute and a guest faculty at other B-schools in Bangalore such as Welingkar Institute of Management and Indian Institute of Planning and Management. She obtained her PhD from Jadavpur University and completed her post doctoral programme from Oxford University. She has over 16 years of experience in teaching and research. Her current interests are in the areas of ethics, corporate social responsibility, cross cultural management, and corporate governance. She has published one book and various research articles in national and international journals, and has also presented papers at national and international conferences.