Age of Responsibility

Wayne Visser is Founder and Director of the think-tank CSR International and the author/editor of twelve books, including nine on the role of business in society. In addition, he is a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Professor of Sustainability at Magna Carta College, Oxford, and Adjunct Professor in CSR at the La Trobe Graduate School of Management in Australia.

• List of boxes, cases, figures and tables ix Foreword by Jeffrey Hollender xiAcknowledgements xviiAbout the author xviiiPart I: The call to responsibility 11 Our ability to respond 3Part II: The ages and stages of CSR 212 The age of greed 233 The age of philanthropy 494 The age of marketing 735 The age of management 956 The age of responsibility 131Part III: The principles of CSR 2.0 1537 The principle of creativity 1558 The principle of scalability 1899 The principle of responsiveness 22110 The principle of glocality 24911 The principle of circularity 281Part IV: Our ability to change 31312 The matrix of change 31513 Making a difference 343Bibliography 367Index 377Other books by Wayne Visser 390

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