Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility

Samuel o Idowu is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Corporate Social Responsibility at London Guildhall School of Business & Law, London Metropolitan University, UK. He researches in the fields of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Accounting and has published in both professional and academic journals since 1989. He is a freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Samuel is the Deputy CEO and First Vice President of the Global Corporate Governance Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of three Springer’s reference books – the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management (forthcoming), he is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility (IJCSR), Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA) and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Responsible Management in Emerging Economies (IJRMEE). He is also a Series Editor for Springer’s books on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance. One of his edited books won the most Outstanding Business Reference book Award of the American Library Association (ALA) in 2016 and another was ranked 18th in the 2010 Top 40 Sustainability Books by, Cambridge University, Sustainability Leadership Programme. Samuel is a member of the Committee of the Corporate Governance Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management (BAM). He is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Business Administration, Canada and Amfiteatru Economic Journal, Romania and a few more. Samuel has delivered a number of Keynote Speeches at national and international conferences and workshops on CSR and has on two occasions 2008 and 2014 won Emerald’s Highly Commended Literati Network Awards for Excellence. To date, Samuel has edited several books in the field of CSR, Sustainability and Governance and has written ten forewords to CSR books. Samuel has served as an external examiner to the following UK Universities – Sunderland, Ulster, Anglia Ruskin, Plymouth, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, Sheffield Hallam University and Leicester De Montfort University. He has also examined PhD these for a few UK and non-UK universities from across the globe.

• Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility: An IntroductioN.- Part I.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Albania.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Austria.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Austria.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Austria.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Austria.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Austria.- Corporate Responsibility in France.- Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives in Germany.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Hungary.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Italy.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Moldova.- Corporate Social Responsibility in North Macedonia.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Poland.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Romania.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Serbia.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Sweden.- Corporate Social Responsibility in The Netherlands.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Turkey.- Corporate Social Responsibility in the United Kingdom.- Part II.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Egypt.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Malawi.- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Island Economy of Mauritius.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria.- Corporate Social Responsibility in South Africa.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Uganda.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Zambia.- Part III.- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Americas.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Bolivia.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Cuba.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico.- Corporate Social Responsibility in the United States of America.- Part IV.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia.- Corporate Social Responsibility in India.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Indonesia.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Nepal.- Corporate Social Responsibility in Japan.- Part V.- General Global Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility and the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030.- Why have we forgotten ‘Government Social Responsibility’? Charting the course for sustainability in Governance.- The Case of Shipbreaking Industry.- EU Perspectives on Sustainability: The EU Budget to the UN SDGs by 2030.- Global Sustainability.- Index.