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Strategic Corporate Responsibility

Name: Strategic Corporate Responsibility
Author: Ulpiana Kocollari
ISBN: 9780429822971

by Ulpiana Kocollari

May 2018

Intermediate to advanced

182 pages

5h 40m

English

Routledge

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The social dimension of firms
1.1. The firm’s overall system1.2. Grounding relationships within the firm’s overall system: Stakeholder Theory1.3. Definition and coordinates of the firm’s social dimension1.4. The drivers of the firm’s social dimension1.4.1. Corporate governance1.4.2. The role of communities, culture and values in the firm’s management1.4.3. The role of market and competition in firms’ management1.5. Representation of the firm’s social dimension
2. The social dimension in the firm’s management
2.1. Corporate Social Responsibility in the firm’s social dimension2.2. Operationalizing Corporate Social Strategy2.3. Communication within the firm’s social dimension2.3.1. Non-financial disclosure2.3.2. CSR communication2.4. A theoretical framework for managing social and economic dimension patterns2.5. Managing the social dimension for innovation2.5.1. Managing social innovation through the firm’s social dimension2.6. Crisis management through the lens of the social dimension framework2.6.1. Communicating crises to stakeholders

3. Measuring Firm’s Social Dimension drivers and performance
3.1. Firm’s accountability3.1.1. Mandatory Non-Financial Disclosure3.1.2. Non-Financial Disclosure in the European Union3.2. Choosing the right measure3.2.1. The purpose of the measurement process3.2.2. The scale of the measurement process3.3. Models and tools for social accounting3.3.1. Value Added Statement (VAS)3.3.2. Costing Models (CM)3.3.3. Social Return on Investment – SROI3.3.4. Social Balanced Scorecard (SBSC)3.3.5. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – Sustainability Reporting Standards3.3.6. Integrated Reporting3.3.7. Auditing and assurance of the social performance – AA10003.3.8. ISO140003.3.9. Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000)3.4. Social accounting process3.4.1. Account identification and data gathering3.4.2. Elaboration and evaluation of the data3.4.3. Reporting and auditing3.4.4. Management control
4. Innovative Startups with a Social Goal (ISSG)
4.1. The social and economic dimensions in the case of Innovative Startups with a Social Goal4.2. Social and economic dimensions in Social Enterprises4.2.1. The development of Social Enterprises: different contexts, different paths4.2.2. Community – culture – rewards patterns in Social Entrepreneurship4.3. The Italian SE context – Innovative Startups with a Social Goal (ISSG)4.4. The configuration of an ISSG’s social and economic dimensions4.5. Models and tools for measuring the social dimensions of ISSG4.6. Conclusions
5. Benefit Corporations
5.1. Benefit Corporations: an innovative configuration of firms’ social and economic dimensions5.2. Italian Benefit Corporations5.3. The configuration of Benefit Corporations’ social and economic dimensions5.4. The accountability of B Corps: the B Impact Assessment5.4.1. Economic and Social Impact5.5. Conclusions
6. Final Considerations
6.1. Final considerations
References

Overview

The book contains original theoretical and empirical material and attention is paid to the principal social and environmental impact measurement models, analysing their main features so as to pinpoint their adequacy in assessing the social dimension and to tailor their use more closely to the specific patterns to which they refer. Finally, a detailed application of the analysis framework, which the author has identified, is proposed for Innovative Start-Ups with a Social Goal and for Benefit Corporations, in order to detect the patterns embedded in their social dimension and their distinctive traits, which influence their management and measurement processes.

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