CSR & Sustainability: From the Margins to the Mainstream-An informal discussion

Michael Hopkins will be launching in Boston what will become the definitive reference on Corporate Social Responsibility!

Covering almost every key topic, it looks at how CSR has gone from the margins to the mainstream. Reflecting on over 30 years in the field, as an academic and practitioner, Michael will look at the future of CSR and sustainability, the lessons learned, and he will offer advice to practitioners and newcomers to CSR.

Available from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/CSR-Sustainability-Margins-Mainstream-Textbook/dp/178353446X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448457897&sr=8-1&keywords=csr+and+sustainability+michael+hopkins) CSR and Sustainability - From the Margins to the Mainstream is a one-stop reference book for professionals and students of CSR and includes contributions from experts in the application of CSR.

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Rebecca Marsh, Editor and Publishing Director, GSE Research and Greenleaf Publishing writes:

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is steadily moving from the margins to the mainstream across the spectrum of private companies, NGOs and the public sector. It has grown from being a concept embraced by a small number of companies such as The Body Shop in the early 1990s to a widespread global movement. At its weakest level, it is represented by a few philanthropic gestures by organisations, but when applied in its most complete form, it can steer the organization or sector to deliver a fully-fledged, system-wide, multi-stakeholder operation, accompanied by multiple types of certification.

For the first time, a book brings together key issues relating to CSR as they apply to different aspects of business; it is not another generalist title about CSR. Michael Hopkins, a leading expert in the field, is joined by a number of outstanding contributors to the book, to explain how CSR has evolved since the 1990s and to offer ground-breaking insights and practical and specific applications of the concept. For example, Mervyn King explains Integrating Reporting, Deborah Leipziger looks at CSR, Branding and the Supply Chain, George Starcher provides a framework for Socially Responsible Restructuring, and Adrian Henriques explores Social Accounting and Stakeholder Dialogue.

• A one-stop reference book for professionals and students of CSR

• Contributions from leading specialists in the application of CSR

• Translates well-established theories into practical tools

Refreshments will be served