The Elgar Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility and the Sustainable Development Goals

Edited by Samuel O. Idowu, Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, UK and Liangrong Zu, Taoist Leadership Academy for Sustainability & Excellence, Global Youth Leadership Academy, Italy

Contents:

Foreword xx
Preface xxi
Acknowledgements xxii
1 Introduction: corporate social responsibility and sustainable development 1
Samuel O. Idowu and Liangrong Zu
2 Wicked problems and sustainability challenges in the era of VUCA 9
Liangrong Zu
3 In search of a common language among stakeholders 27
Arto O. Salonen and Tanja Vesala-Varttala
4 Sustainability transitions by ecosystem innovation 48
Joel Wolff, Maria Jakubik, Jaakko Siltaloppi, Lili-Ann Wolff and Esko Hakanen
5 Integrating SDGs in accounting education: evidence from Italian universities 68
Camilla Falivena and Carmela Gulluscio
6 Promoting decent work for sustainable development through CSR
activities in Latvia 85
Angelina Roša and Natalja Lace
7 Work safety as an important aspect of CSR and sustainable development goals 99
Anna Cierniak-Emerych
8 CSR and sustainable development goals in the Romanian higher
education system 116
Silvia Puiu
9 Controlling or constructing business through the sustainable development goals 130
Magnus Frostenson
10 Achieving the sustainable development goals through public awareness 142
Jack Johnson and Dr Allan J. Sim
11 How does CSR address equality problems towards sustainable
development goals? Business cases from various industries 160
Gizem Aras Beger, Bayram Bilge Sağlam and Egemen Ertürk
12 Intertemporal trade-offs to safeguard intergenerational equity: the role
of business in sustainability issues 174
Sam Sarpong
13 Contribution of sustainable development goals and corporate social
responsibility initiatives of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to social
development in Nigeria: a critical assessment of the different parties
and the dynamic involved in mandating CSR to identify best practices
for developing nations 190
Adebimpe Adesua Lincoln and Brendhain Diamond
14 Corporate social responsibility and the sustainable development goals:
a case of South Africa 221
Ndangwa Noyoo
15 Using the shared value business model to bridge the gap in South
Africa’s energy crisis: an analysis of the shared value business model as
a corporate governance strategy used to ameliorate the failure of Eskom 233
Mikovhe Maphiri
16 Multinational oil and gas corporations’ contribution to SDGs and social
compliance in Uganda through their corporate social responsibility:
a lens into readiness and the obstacles they face 250
David Katamba, Bosco Amerit, Maureen Basuuta, Swithern Tumwine and
Muhammed Ngoma
17 Study on the cognitive differences of SDGs among Chinese university
students based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory 269
Hualiang Lu, Zhenying Xie and Guangwei Xu
18 Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development goals:
a study of selected companies in India 288
Sumona Ghosh
19 Japan’s approach to the sustainable development goals 311
Scott Davis, Shuichi Suzuki and Hiroshi Sasaki
20 Sustainable development goals in Bolivia: assumptions and realities 331
Boris Christian Herbas-Torrico, Carlos Alejandro Arandia-Tavera and Pedro
Alejandro Leoni-Peinado

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