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CSR AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS introduces many perspectives on corporate social responsibility and sustainable business, and describes how the different perspectives are connected. The reasoning is linked to real-world examples and cases. CSR is subject to rapid developments within both politics and business, nationally and globally. The relationships between business and society, and between economics and politics, affect both the content of sustainability practices and the expressions and directions they take in research, which several of the book's chapters address.

In this revised edition, we have added a focus on how geopolitical conflicts affect companies' opportunities to pursue sustainability issues, as well as a description of the new regulations from the EU. The book provides both an overview of the most important concepts and theories, and an in-depth presentation of historical perspectives and connections to business ethics. Theory is interspersed with examples from a wide range of companies and organizations. The book is divided into three parts:

CSR OCH HÅLLBART FÖRETAGANDE introducerar många perspektiv på företagens sociala ansvar och hållbart företagande, samt hur de olika perspektiven hänger ihop. Resonemangen knyter an till verkliga exempel och fall. Utvecklingen inom CSR går snabbt inom både politik och företagande, nationellt och globalt. Relationen mellan näringsliv och samhälle, och mellan ekonomi och politik, påverkar både hållbarhetspraktikens innehåll och vilka uttryck och riktningar det tar i forskning, vilket flera av bokens kapitel tar upp.

I denna omarbetade upplaga har vi inkluderat ett fokus på hur geopolitiska konflikter påverkar företagens möjligheter att driva hållbarhetsfrågor, samt beskrivning av de nya regelverk som presenterats av EU.  Boken ger både en överblick över de viktigaste koncepten och teorierna samt ett djup kring historiska perspektiv och företagsetiska kopplingar. Teori varvas med exempel från en lång rad företag och organisationer. Boken är uppdelad i tre delar: Den första delen ger en bred introduktion till CSR och hållbarhet samt introducerar begrepp och definitioner inom området. Nytt är ett kapitel om social hållbarhet. Den andra delen belyser på olika sätt ansvar och hållbarhetsarbetet i företagens och affärsverksamhetens praktik, alltifrån konsument- och värdekedjeperspektiv till hållbarhetsrapportering. Den tredje och sista delen i boken lyfter blicken till en mer strategisk nivå där kapitalets och investeringarnas roll i företags hållbarhetsarbete lyfts och hur de övergripande hållbarhetsstrategier kan kommuniceras.

Boken samlar några av de mest inflytelserika experterna inom området och används vid ett stort antal universitet och chefsutbildningar i Sverige.

CSR AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS introduces many perspectives on corporate social responsibility and sustainable business, and describes how the different perspectives are connected. The reasoning is linked to real-world examples and cases. CSR is subject to rapid developments within both politics and business, nationally and globally. The relationships between business and society, and between economics and politics, affect both the content of sustainability practices and the expressions and directions they take in research, which several of the book's chapters address.

In this revised edition, we have added a focus on how geopolitical conflicts affect companies' opportunities to pursue sustainability issues, as well as a description of the new regulations from the EU. The book provides both an overview of the most important concepts and theories, and an in-depth presentation of historical perspectives and connections to business ethics. Theory is interspersed with examples from a wide range of companies and organizations. The book is divided into three parts:

The first part provides a broad introduction to CSR and sustainability and introduces concepts and definitions in the field. It contains a new chapter on social sustainability.

The second part in various ways highlights responsibility and sustainability work in the practices of companies and business operations, covering everything from the consumer and value chain perspectives to sustainability reporting.

The third and final part of the book lifts the gaze to a more strategic level where the role of capital and investments in companies' sustainability work is highlighted, along with how general sustainability strategies can be communicated.

The book brings together some of the most influential experts in the field and is used at many universities and management training courses in Sweden.

Organizational Identity in Practice provides much-needed, in-depth studies on what happens when aspirations, claims and beliefs interact. Given the practical needs of managers and students, this exciting new text provides readers with more insight into what differences in these identity aspirations, claims and beliefs really mean and what we may expect to occur when these differences become visible and what the outcomes of these processes are likely to be.

The diverse case studies illustrate how well-known firms have dealt with the broad issues of "who we are as an organization" and "what makes us similar or distinct from others" and cover a broad range of industries, firms, and organizational forms. The cases from companies such as Air France, AT&T, Bang & Olufsen, BP, Statoil, Starbucks, Scania and Alfa Romeo are focused on the broad topics of organizational identity, strategy and the environment, multiple and conflicting identities, the construction of identities, and how organizations express and project their identities. The authors give scholars, students and managers valuable ideas on how to deal with organizational identity challenges within firms.

Organizational Identity in Practice provides much-needed, in-depth studies on what happens when aspirations, claims and beliefs interact. Given the practical needs of managers and students, this exciting new text provides readers with more insight into what differences in these identity aspirations, claims and beliefs really mean and what we may expect to occur when these differences become visible and what the outcomes of these processes are likely to be.

The diverse case studies illustrate how well-known firms have dealt with the broad issues of "who we are as an organization" and "what makes us similar or distinct from others" and cover a broad range of industries, firms, and organizational forms. The cases from companies such as Air France, AT&T, Bang & Olufsen, BP, Statoil, Starbucks, Scania and Alfa Romeo are focused on the broad topics of organizational identity, strategy and the environment, multiple and conflicting identities, the construction of identities, and how organizations express and project their identities. The authors give scholars, students and managers valuable ideas on how to deal with organizational identity challenges within firms.