Research Anthology on Developing Socially Responsible Businesses


Book Description

In today’s world of global change, it has never been more critical for businesses to adapt their strategies, management styles, and policies to match that of the surrounding environment. Consumers are increasingly becoming more aware of the impact that businesses and product consumption have on environmental health. Thus, businesses have had to alter their production workflows to better suit a more environmentally conscious customer base. As society faces numerous issues related to the environment, health, poverty, and social justice, the need for socially responsible businesses is crucial to develop and improve the overall landscape of the business field. The Research Anthology on Developing Socially Responsible Businesses discusses the best practices, challenges, opportunities, and benefits of creating socially responsible businesses and provides a context of why these business models are needed. This essential text also considers how society has changed over time and how businesses must adjust their ideals and practices in order to survive in a changing world. Covering a range of topics such as accountability, environmental issues, and human rights, this major reference work is ideal for business owners, managers, policymakers, academicians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.




Research Anthology on Approaches to Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship


Book Description

Social entrepreneurship has grown in popularity in recent decades as a way to use business models and innovation to address social and environmental issues. While these ventures are helpful to many, emerging opportunities and challenges in the field still need to be explored. It is essential to remain knowledgeable on the emerging research within the field of social entrepreneurship so that we may better implement entrepreneurial solutions to social issues. The Research Anthology on Approaches to Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship presents a comprehensive collection of the recent research into the developments, challenges, and opportunities of social and sustainable entrepreneurship in the modern era. Covering topics such as ecotourism, leadership styles, and poverty alleviation, this major reference work is an indispensable resource for business leaders and executives, entrepreneurs, government officials, community leaders, students and educators of higher education, economists, sociologists, librarians, researchers, and academicians.




Recent Advancements in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility


Book Description

In an effort to safeguard the environment, consumers have begun pressuring global businesses to create environmentally-friendly products and sustainable business practices that promote the preservation and protection of communities and nature. To create and maintain positive consumer relationships, new and existing businesses must enact policies that allow them to make an effective and smooth transition toward sustainability to contribute to economic growth by creating offerings with environmental and social value. Recent Advancements in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility provides emerging research that examines entrepreneurial strategies and business practices that can be implemented to provide eco-friendly services to the community and that offer solutions to various social and environmental problems. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as green marketing, corporate identity, and business ethics, this book is ideally designed for CSR managers, human resources professionals, entrepreneurs, managers, executives, corporate leaders, business professionals, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the expanding area of sustainable business practices.







Foreign Business in China and Opportunities for Technological Innovation and Sustainable Economics


Book Description

Productivity remains the critical determinant of long-term national growth and prosperity. The effects of today’s globalism on productivity demands the need for business organizations to sustain their competitive advantage and remain profitable over time. Foreign Business in China and Opportunities for Technological Innovation and Sustainable Economics is a collection of research used to demonstrate state-of-the art approaches of international business and innovation management that shows how new, advanced, international business models and adoptive strategies can expand the sustainability frontiers. This publication serves as a leading reference source on Chinese business, technology, economy, and innovation, and facilitates necessary skills needed to engage with business in or with China. While highlighting topics including e-commerce, foreign trade, and global business, individuals such as students, educators, international business experts, and innovation experts can expand their technical knowledge in the global economy.




Handbook of Research on Decision-Making Techniques in Financial Marketing


Book Description

Consumer needs and demands are constantly changing. Because of this, marketing science and finance have their own concepts and theoretical backgrounds for evaluating consumer-related challenges. However, examining the function of finance with a marketing discipline can help to better understand internal management processes and compete in today’s market. The Handbook of Research on Decision-Making Techniques in Financial Marketing is a collection of innovative research that integrates financial and marketing functions to make better sense of the workplace environment and business-related challenges. Different financial challenges are taken into consideration while many of them are based on marketing theories such as agency theory, product life cycle, and optimal consumer experience. While highlighting topics including behavioral financing, corporate ethics, and Islamic banking, this book is ideally designed for financiers, marketers, financial analysts, marketing strategists, researchers, policymakers, government officials, academicians, students, and industry professionals.




Two Faces of Digital Transformation


Book Description

Focusing on so-far unresolved questions about this new horizon of modernity, Two Faces of Digital Transformation provides insights into technological advancements with business administrative applications and examines forthcoming implementation strategies from a range of perspectives.




Sustainability Reporting, Ethics, and Strategic Management Strategies for Modern Organizations


Book Description

Current modern companies, which are also the key factors of a global economy, are subject to increasing pressures to conduct their business in an environmentally responsible manner, due to social and environmental problems. Improving long-term environmental performance can bring economic benefits to those companies that are innovative and environmentally sensitive, especially by integrating environmental information into their business strategies. Considering all the changes, sustainability reporting, management, and financial accounting becomes a powerful information tool for executives, managers, and employee teams to gain insights and make better decisions. Along with concepts such as ethical, controlling, auditing, management, and financial accounting, reporting provides value with the decision-making process. All these debates underline the major responsibility of users when configuring accounting and finance models and thereby in modelling business information. Sustainability Reporting, Ethics, and Strategic Management Strategies for Modern Organizations proposes an interdisciplinary perspective and explores various theoretical and practical approaches of ethical standards, management accounting, and their impact in the 21st century on different areas of activity. It contrasts external financial accounting for government regulators and the investment community with internal management accounting for managers to leverage for decision making. In addition, the book examines the role of management accounting and sustainability reporting from other points of view such as ethical standards, corporate social responsibility, creative accounting, green accounting, environmental indicators, e-accounting, KPI, lean accounting, controlling, auditing, reporting, etc., offering a number of new insights into management accounting. It is intended for chief financial officers, financial controllers, business analysts, financial planners, financial analysts, budgeting managers, executives, managers, academicians, researchers, and students.




Green Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications


Book Description

The issues of sustainability and corporate social responsibility have become vital discussions in many industries within the public and private sectors. In the business realm, incorporating practices that serve the overall community and ecological wellbeing can also allow businesses to flourish economically and socially. Green Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source for the latest research findings on the challenges and benefits of implementing sustainability into the core functions of contemporary enterprises, focusing on how green approaches improve operations. Highlighting a range of topics such as corporate sustainability, green enterprises, and circular economy, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for business executives, business and marketing professionals, business managers, academicians, and researchers actively involved in the business industry.