Professionals´ Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility

Since the general acceptance of the field of corporate social responsibility worldwide, corporate entities and those who act for them either as executives or "ordinary" employees are expected to be socially responsible. Being socially responsible has a number of quantifiable and unquantifiable benefits for the entity and its stakeholders. It improves the entity's bottom line results, protects jobs, and is also better for the environment. As such, it makes good sense for professionals and those that they interact with as colleagues, suppliers of goods and services, lenders etc to want to take the issue of CSR seriously. This perhaps explains why this book has chosen to explore how nineteen professions across the world have integrated and continue to impress upon their staff the importance of CSR in their operational activities. We are constantly reminded that our world's natural resources are exhaustible; we can therefore no longer live for today alone if we do not want to cause substantial problems for future generations.

"Since the general acceptance of the field of corporate social responsibility worldwide, corporate entities and those who act for them either as executives or "ordinary" employees are expected to be socially responsible. Being socially responsible has a number of quantifiable and unquantifiable benefits for the entity and its stakeholders. It improves the entity's bottom line results, protects jobs, and is also better for the environment. As such, it makes good sense for professionals and those that they interact with as colleagues, suppliers of goods and services, lenders etc to want to take the issue of CSR seriously. This perhaps explains why this book has chosen to explore how 19 professions across the world have integrated and continue to impress upon their staff the importance of CSR in their operational activities. We are constantly reminded that our world's natural resources are exhaustible; we can therefore no longer live for today alone if we do not want to cause substantial problems for future generations."

Business and Management.- Professionals' Perspectives of CSR: An Introduction.- Corporate Responsibility, Accounting and Accountants.- Perspectives of Lawyers in Practice on CSR.- Corporate Social Responsibility from the Perspective of Corporate Secretaries.- Mainsteaming Corporate Social Responsibility: A Triadic Challenge from a General Management Perspective.- The Company Directors' Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility.- The Need to Reconsider Societal Marketing.- An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility, Trust and Reputation in the Banking Profession.- An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability Reporting Assessment in the Greek Banking Sector.- Engineering.- Industrial Engineering's Perspective of CSR.- An Exploratory Study of the Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in the Greek Manufacturing Sector.- Environment, Estate Management and Valuation and the Built Environment.- Corporate Social Responsibility: The Investor's Perspective.- Corporate Social Responsibility: The Estate Surveyors and Valuers' Perspective.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics in Real Estate: Evidence from Turkey.- Not-for Profit Organisations and Leisure.- Does 'Corporate' Responsibility Apply to Not-for-Profit Organizations?.- A Hotelier's Perspective of CSR.- Emphasizing the 'Social' in Corporate Social Responsibility: A Social Work Perspective.- Democratic Gains in Public Administration at Local Level in Terms of CSR: Theory and Practice-Based Approaches at Izmir Metropolitan City, Turkey.- Education, Consultancy, Research and Human Resource Management.- An Academic's Perspective on the Role of Academics in Corporate Responsibility.- The Proliferation of CSR from Two Professional Perspectives: AcademicResearchers and Consultants.- An Analysis of the Competence of Business School Teachers to Promote Sustainable Development in Finland.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Resource Management: A Strategic-Balanced Model.- Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century: Some Thoughts.