Stakeholders, Governance and Responsibility

• Part 1. Stakeholders roles in organisationsChapter 1. Value creation from strategic partnerships between companies and NGOs; Louise Helene Nielsen, Peter NeergaardChapter 2. Participation As A Human Rights: A Right-Based Approach to Development; Nour Mohammad, Yeasmin FarzanaChapter 3. The role of the Integrated Reporting in raising awareness of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) performance; Thinh HoangChapter 4. Employee well-being at work: insights for business leaders and corporate social responsibility; Nicole CvenkelChapter 5. Strategic Alliance for Environmental Stewardship: The Market-Place Model; Chimaobi OkereChapter 6. Striving for Corporate Legitimacy through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Insights from NGO’s Perspectives; Mahadir Ladisma @ Awis, Hazman Shah Vijayan Abdullah, Norziana Lokman, Roshima SaidPart 2. Industry and stakeholders Chapter 7. Social Responsibility in Transition of Stakeholders – from the School to the University; Loreta Tauginienė, Jolanta Urbanovič Chapter 8. Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility: A Study of Provisions and Implications of Indian Companies Act 2013; Roopinder OberoiChapter 9. An Assessment of Airport Governance Policies with a Stakeholder Persepective; Ferhan Kuyucak Sengur, Bijan Vasigh Chapter 10. Corporate Social Responsibility as Catalyst for Development: Prospects and Challenges in Nigeria; Nojeem AmoduChapter 11. Sweatshops and a duty of care – to what extent? The case of Bangladesh; Sam SarpongChapter 12. Synergising Distance Education and ICT, a study of the state of Meghalaya, India; Ananya S Guha & Isagahah Lawrniang

Contributed by an international group of researchers, the 12 essays in this book examine corporate governance and social responsibility and their relationship to stakeholders. In the first section, they discuss stakeholders' roles in organizations, including value creation from strategic partnerships between companies and nongovernmental organizations; participation in development as a human right; the role of integrated reporting and raising awareness of environmental, social, and corporate governance performance; employee well-being; building strategic alliances for environmental stewardship using a market-place model; and corporate legitimacy through corporate social responsibility. The second section addresses industry and stakeholders, with essays on social responsibility in educational settings, and stakeholders and their management strategies; institutionalizing corporate social responsibility and the role of government in setting standards in India; airport governance policies and stakeholder issues; corporate social responsibility as a catalyst for development in Nigeria; the need to ensure the welfare of workers in developing countries, using the example of sweatshops in Bangladesh; and the use of information and communication technology and mixed technology for self and distance learning in India.