Developing corporate social responsibility : a European perspective / Francesco Perrini, Stefano Pogutz, Antonio Tencati

Includes bibliographical references and index

Corporate social responsibility: new equilibria in managing firms -- The EU strategy: promoting CSR across Europe -- CSR across Europe: public policies and ongoing initiatives -- The evolutionary path of the concept of CSR -- CSR as a source of competitive advantage -- European and international standards, tools and methodologies on CSR -- SERS, the Space-Bocconi framework -- CSR in Italy: situation and company models -- The Italian government proposal: the CSR-SC project -- The future of CSR in Europe

'Developing Corporate Social Responsibility' aims to dispel the confusion arising from the rapidly increasing attention devoted to corporate social responsibility (CSR); the term 'CSR' is applied to myriad dissimilar phenomena.