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Court Uncourt | STA LawFirm
Your Source for Legal News
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
The age-old adage “rule of thumb” comes from a derelict old English law which stated That one could not beat his wife with anything wider than one’s thumb. Strange laws that existed in a time we only read about. The law is ever dynamic and continues to reflect the society’s customs of the...
Social versus Corporate Welfare
Competing Needs and Interests within the Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive emergency state bailouts and interventions put in place from 2008 were unique only in their size and...
Corporate Responsibility
The American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
This thought-provoking history of corporate responsibility in the USA is a landmark publication documenting the story of corporate power and business behavior from the mid-eighteenth century to the modern day. It shows how the idea of corporate responsibility has evolved over time, with the roles,...
Full Product Transparency
Cutting the Fluff Out of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book outlines a path towards a more practical era for "corporate responsibility", where companies make real environmental gains based on hard facts, using lifecycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPDs).By the time you have finished this book you will be able...
The Right to Know
Transparency for an Open World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose? Excessive secrecy corrodes democracy, facilitates corruption, and undermines good public policymaking, but keeping a lid on military strategies,...
The World Guide to CSR
A Country-by-Country Analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The World Guide to CSR is the first book to provide comparable national profiles that describe the evolution and practice of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR) for 58 countries and 5 global regions. Each regional and national profile includes key information about the relevant CSR history,...
by Wayne Visser
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social and environmental challenges we face as a society. These are the Top 50 Sustainability Books as voted for by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership's alumni network...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Business-as-usual in terms of industrial and technological development – even if based on a growing fear of pollution and shortages of natural resources – will never deliver sustainable development. However, the growing interest in recent years in the new science of industrial ecology (IE), and...
Corporations and Sustainability
The South Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Corporations and Sustainability: The South Asian Perspective is a collection of contributions from leading academics and practitioners which provides an overview of the key challenges and opportunities related to sustainability in South Asia.
The last two decades have seen rapid and often...
The Shareholder Action Guide
Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
“A valuable call to action for small shareholders to change the ways big corporations do business.”
*—Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor
Want to make misbehaving corporations mend their ways? You can! If you own their stock, corporations have to listen to you. Shareholder advocate...
From Walmart to Al Qaeda
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
From Walmart to Al Qaeda explains the fuzzy, complex and seemingly incomprehensible concept of globalization. What is globalization? What are the core topics, theories and competing ideologies? Are we walking towards homogenization or towards a global collision of cultures and identities? The potential...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
European approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are supposed to be largely different from those in other continents like America, Asia, and Africa. Yet, European approaches to CSR are not a single and static one, but vary across and within national states and shift over time. This edited...
Corporate Responsibility and Digital Communities
An International Perspective towards Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book explores conceptualizations of CSR and sustainability in the digital economy, focusing upon points of intersection between CSR and online communities. Reflecting on new areas of responsibility that organisations must face in a globalised economy, the contributions explore the ways CSR is...
#Trusthewhy
Fundamentals, Values and Humor Get You Through Anything
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
I have always thought of myself as a "spiritual entrepreneur." Kindness is my superpower. Giving it, receiving it and encouraging it. Spiritual entrepreneurs believe and demonstrate: "you can't keep it unless you give it away." They serve and help people with an optimism and authenticity that builds...