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Corporate Citizenship: Perspectives in the New Century
Author: Ananda Das Gupta
Date Of Publication: Jan 2008
Isbn13: 9781847184351
Isbn: 1-84718-435-9
The international community has policy tools to influence business activity within and between nations, and to help ensure that globalization proceeds in a way that benefits all. These tools include legislation and regulatory frameworks, voluntary compliance with an agreed set of standards monitored by a third party, or self-regulation by businesses, often in conformance with voluntary codes of conduct.

Balancing corporate investment with community investment is the way of the future. With growing public interest and concern regarding the sustainability of communities as globalization deepens, it will be necessary to show that the nations are working together to ensure that the activities of the business community make a positive contribution to the communities in which they do business.

With all these points in the backdrop, the book aims at underlining the big-picture thinking on issues related to the roles that business can play in fostering a moral, equitable and ecologically sustainable world.

Dr. Ananda Das Gupta has been engaged in teaching and research for more than eighteen years in different universities and institute across India, like North Eastern Hill University (Central university) as Head of the Department of Commerce at Aizawl, as Academic Counsellor to Indira Gandhi National Open University (North Eastern Regional Centre), as Associate Faculty at Vivekananda Centre for Indian Management (VCIM) in Indore, and currently is Associate Professor in Organizational Development, Strategic Human Resources Management, Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics at Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore - a national level sectoral management school set up at the initiative of Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. He has a Masters Degree in Commerce with specialization in Personnel Management and he did his doctorate from University of Patna as a UGC-research Fellow. A Life Fellow of Indian Academy of Social Sciences and a Member of the Indian Society of Labour Economics, he is a Doctoral Supervisor of many Indian Universities including the prestigious BITS-Pilani. He has just edited the Special Issue on India of International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group, England and currently is the Guest Editor, Social Responsibility Journal, an International Journal from Emerald Group, England.

Ananda Das Gupta’s books include the following:

Human Values in Management, Ashgate Publishing limited, England, 2004.

Ethics in Business, Rawat Publications, Jaipur/New Delhi, 2005.

Price Uk Gbp: 29.99
Price Us Usd: 44.99

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