While global challenges such as a future pandemics and global warming seem insurmountable, innovation and cumulative small changes can help towards managing such disruptive events. Innovation can encompass a new way of doing things, new products and services, and new solutions; in organizations where innovation can flourish, progress and resilience can be achieved.
This edited collection draws together a number of chapters, organized into two parts – developing social responsibility and developing sustainability – both of which are interlinked and interdependent. Topics presented range from: mandatory CSR in the banking industry to the professional integration of displaced persons to knowledge for and about sustainability, and many more. The diversity of the chapters gift readers an interdisciplinary examination of innovation, social responsibility and sustainability.
Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility offers the latest research on topical issues by international experts and has practical relevance to business managers.
This edited collection draws together a number of chapters, organized into two parts – developing social responsibility and developing sustainability – both of which are interlinked and interdependent.
Part
1. Developing Social Responsibility
Chapter
1. Towards A Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility for Banks in
Challenging Institutional Contexts: A Case Study of Nigeria; Victor
Ediagbonya
Chapter
2. Factors Influencing Willingness-to-Repurchase Airline Services in
Nigeria; Adetayo Olaniyi Adeniran, Ikpechukwu Njoku, and Mobolaji S. Stephens
Chapter
3. Professional integration of displaced persons; Hajaina Ravoaja
Chapter
4. Practice of Female Genital Mutilation in West Africa; Ilugbami
Joseph Olanrewaju and Oluwadamisi Tayo-Ladega
Chapter
5. Gender-Based Violence in North-West Nigeria; Oluwadamisi
Tayo-Ladega and Ilugbami Joseph Olanrewaju
Chapter
6. COVID-19 induced shift in CSR: An empirical investigation; Taral
Pathak, Srushti Govilkar, and Ruchi Tewari
Part
2. Developing Sustainability
Chapter
7. Bioconversion of Mauritius Hemp hydrolysate into
polyhydroxybutyrate biopolymer; Nausheen Jaffur, Pratima Jeetaha, and
Gopalakrishnan Kumar
Chapter
8. But what does sustainability mean? The groundwork for knowledge
about sustainability and knowledge for sustainability; Florian Kragulj, Anna
Katharina Grill, Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, and Arminda do Paço
Chapter
9. How the UN SDGs have affected sustainability reporting activity of
Spanish public universities?; Francisco Javier Andrades Peña, Domingo
Martinez Martinez, and Manuel Larrán Jorge
David Crowther is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at several universities including Bedfordshire university, UK, who previously worked in government and industry for twenty years, a career culminating in his role as divisional managing director of a multinational. In 2002 he established the Social Responsibility Research Network, an international body which now has several thousand members. His current research focuses on sustainability and governance in the modern environment.
Shahla Seifi is an engineer by training and worked at a senior level preparing standards for the national institute of Iran before moving to the UK. She now researches, writes, organises SRRNet activities (SRRNet.org) and runs her own consultancy.
