People, Planet and Profit

Samuel O. Idowu is a Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University; a Guest Professor to Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators and the RSA; a Freeman of the City of London and a member of the Global Governance Institute. He has edited ten books and the Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopaedia of Corporate Social Responsibility. Abubakar Sadiq Kasum is a Lecturer, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Ilorin in Nigeria; and Associate, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. He has written many articles, academic and conference papers and is a member of numerous international research networks. Professor Dr Asli Yüksel Mermod teaches Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Marmara. She has held many administrative posts within the Social Sciences Institute, is a keynote speaker and widely published author and co-author of a dozen books.

’The concept of corporate social responsibility has taken center stage in the literature of business. Everyone is now aware of the enormous impact of business firms in general and financial institutions in particular on every aspect of modern civilization and in every corner of the globe. In People, Planet and Profit: Socio-Economic Perspectives of CSR, Idowu, Kasum and Mermod have constructed a comprehensive and challenging anthology focused specifically on how large multinational corporations deal with a host of issues from environmental impact to accounting practices.’ Nicholas Capaldi, Director, Center for Spiritual Capital, Loyola University, USA ’I find this book stimulates our thinking on CSR from a new perspective of social and economic development. Its breadth and scope, the variety of data explored at micro and macro levels, and the stark nature of the argument will allow business people and politicians to seek new solutions and new measures of social and economic performance.’ Liangrong Zu, International CSR Specialist, International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization, Italy ’People, Planet and Profit is an impressive achievement. At a time when studies of CSR continue to be dominated by northern hemisphere concepts and examples this book extends the parameters for analysis and debate to areas that hitherto have been neglected. As such People, Planet and Profit should be essential reading for academics and policy makers who are serious about contributing to CSR as a global concept.’ Stephen Vertigans, Head of School of Applied Social Studies Robert Gordon University, UK

• Developmental Perspective of CSR: An Introduction; I: Multinational Corporations and CSR; 1: Multinational Corporations and CSR in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Sector; 2: CSR and the Enterprise Culture of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries; 3: CSR of Foreign Multinational Corporations in China; 4: The Economic and Social Impact of Multinational Corporations in Romania; 5: A Comparative Study of CSR Practices by Multinational Corporations in their Operations in Developed and Developing Economies; 6: CSR of Multinational and Indigenous Corporations in Romania; II: CSR and Socio-economic Progress; 7: The Diamond-shaped Socio-economic Development of Botswana; 8: Towards a Political Economy Perspective on CSR in a Developing Country Context: A Case Study of Tanzania; 9: CSR and Energy Investments in Turkey; III: CSR in the General Environment; 10: Corporate Social Responsibility to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Extending Sustainable Development in Society; 11: The Effectiveness of CSR Initiatives and their Impact upon Stakeholders; 12: Livelihood Assets Financing as a CSR Initiative of Microfinance Banks in Nigeria; 13: Environmental Management Accounting: An Overview; 14: CSR: Global Perspective, Competitiveness, Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation; 15: CSR: A Modern Tool for Building Social Capital