Leveraging Corporate Responsibility

C. B. Bhattacharya is the E.ON Chair Professor in Corporate Responsibility at the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, Germany. Sankar Sen is Professor of Marketing at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, a senior college of the City University of New York. Daniel Korschun is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, where he is also a Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation Management.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of exhibits; 1. The long and winding road to CR value; Part I. Deconstructing CR Value: 2. Viewing stakeholders as individuals; 3. How stakeholders respond to CR; Part II. Inside the Mind of the Stakeholder: 4. What stakeholders see and hear; 5. The psychological engine that drives CR reactions; 6. How context influences the process; Part III. Putting Insight into Action: 7. Co-creating CR strategy; 8. Communicating CR strategy; 9. Calibrating CR strategy; 10. Putting the framework to work; 11. Conclusion: the long and winding road revisited; Appendix: our research program.

'Leveraging Corporate Responsibility should be required reading in the global C-Suite. It identifies both the psychological levers driving stakeholder behaviour and the business responses that result in loyalty or commitment. The aim is to serve both company and society, maximizing value across the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit.' John Elkington, co-founder of SustainAbility and Volans Ventures; co-author of The Power of Unreasonable People; and originator of the triple bottom line