Cranfield School of Management

Publications and  Multimedia Resources

At the Doughty Centre we write and research publications for both academic and practitioner audiences looking to find out more about
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, the role of business in society, and the systems which enable sustainable societies.

  • We cover emerging research in Centre Working Papers and Occasional Papers
  • We publish academic research in journal articles and as case studies
  • We research and write practitioner-based research and guidance documents such as our How-to Guide series and our Hot Topics in CR series

Recent Centre Publications:

7th in our How to do CR series: How to identify and manage a company's major impacts by Visiting Fellow Mandy Cormack

 
Cranfield on Corporate Sustainability: a School of Management book with a cross-disciplinary approach to corporate sustainability. Edited by David Grayson and Nadine Exter, published by Greenleaf Publishing, July 2012.


From 2011 the popular joint report for business, with BITC:
The business case for being a responsible business. Joint report with Business in the Community.

Publications and Multimedia Resources

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What's New:

Doughty Centre Associate, Chris Marsden, has written a teaching module on Business and Human rights for use by business school faculty. Click here for more details.

 

Professor David Grayson has an essay published in the April 2013 edition of Ethical Corporation: “Carers: a business responsibility and social opportunity

 

Our latest Doughty Centre Occasional Paper, "Creating sustainable businesses through social intrapreneurism", highlights the features of the enabling environment for social intrapreneurism, including "culture that D.A.R.E.S. to innovate", as well as suggested practical C.H.A.N.G.E.S. - 7 Habits companies can cultivate to build successful social intrapreneurism. Click here to download a briefing note on this paper.

 

Dr Palie Smart is quoted in an article in The Times (18 March 2013) : Launch of Female FTSE 100 manufacturing board index. Full Article

 

Professors David Grayson and Andrew Kakabadse have an article "Sustainable Business Leadership. Take it from the top" published in the February 2013 edition of Ethical Corporation magazine.

 

This joint Doughty Centre publication with Business in the Community was launched at the Prince of Wale’s Seeing is Believing report-back session at St James’s Palace on January 29th by Phil Hodkinson who is a non-executive director of BT plc, Travelex Holdings and Resolution Ltd. Phil also wrote the foreword to the report. The report is both a summary of quantitative and qualitative research undertaken during 2012 into how boards organise oversight and governance of Corporate Responsibility; and a think-piece commentary inviting discussion and debate within and amongst corporate boards about how to improve oversight and governance in future. Read report

 

New publication: “Corporate Responsibility Coalitions. The past, present and future of alliances for sustainable capitalism” by David Grayson, director of the Doughty Centre, and Jane Nelson, director of the CSR Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, published by Greenleaf Publishing. Click here for a summary of the book and an interview with David Grayson

 


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