Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

Management Themes

Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

It is critical in today’s complex, interconnected world that organisations understand, identify and manage their material social, environmental and economic impacts. Corporate responsibility & sustainability (CR&S) is about enabling companies to incorporate creation of social and environmental, as well as economic, value into core strategy and operations. This improves management of business risks and opportunities whilst enhancing long-term social and environmental sustainability.

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Business leads the way in sustainability
By Prof David Grayson | 16/04/2013 More
Business Coalitions Webinar
By David Grayson | 10/04/2013 More

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Key Concepts

Bullseye
By David Grayson | 06/03/2012 More
Stages of Corporate Responsibility Maturity
By David Grayson | 06/03/2012 More

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Faculty Members

Ruth Bender
Reader in Corporate Financial Strategy
Mike Bernon
Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management
David Grayson
Professor of Corporate Responsibility
Andrew Kakabadse
Professor of International Management Development
Donna Ladkin
Professor in Leadership and Ethics
Stan Maklan
Reader in Strategic Marketing
Carlos Mena
Senior Lecturer
Lance Moir
Visiting Professor
Palie Smart
Reader in Corporate Responsibility

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60 seconds with Professor David Grayson - Corporate Responsibility
30/04/2013
Corporate Responsibility is about how businesses behave in all they do.
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Professor David Grayson interviewed for Thinkers50
24/04/2013
Professor David Grayson interviewed for Thinkers50
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Alliances for Corporate Responsibility
24/01/2013
David Grayson looks at business-led corporate responsibility coalitions which are the subject of his latest book.
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Latest Publications

Latest Book Summaries

Corporate Responsibility Coalitions
By David Grayson and Jane Nelson | 31/01/2013
It is estimated that there are more than 110 national and international generalist business-led CR coalitions. This book explores the past, present and future of these coalitions: the emergence of new models of collective corporate action over the past four decades; the current state of play, and their increasing number, diversity and complexity.
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Think: Cranfield

Big Society: Implications for Managers
By David Grayson | May 2011 More
Reflections on the BP Oil Spill Crisis
By David Grayson and David Denyer | Sep 2010 More
Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Responsibility
By David Grayson | Sep 2009 More

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