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Looks at how UK supermarkets have responded to climate change.
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This chapter provides an overview of the literatures on CSR and on the governance of business, and it explores the links between these two, frequently separate, debates. It concludes that while there is a general recognition in the literature of the factors that encourage companies to adopt a proactive approach to CSR, the specific factors and their relative importance are often poorly understood. Even though the theoretical literature on CSR and the governance of business is relatively underdeveloped, there is a growing body of empirical evidence that provides important insights, in particular in terms of the factors that make specific governance interventions more or less effective.
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This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be achieved. Twenty years on from the publication of the seminal Brundtland Report, it has become clear that formidable challenges confront policy makers who have publicly stated their commitment to the goal of sustainable development. The Handbook of Sustainable Development seeks to provide an account of the considerable progress made in fleshing out these issues.
Dr Stavros Afionis
Cardiff University
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This page is a summary of: Corporate social responsibility, sustainability and the governance of business, Edward Elgar Publishing,
DOI: 10.4337/9781782544708.00049.
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