Since the general acceptance of the field of corporate social responsibility worldwide, corporate entities and those who act for them either as executives or "ordinary" employees are expected to be socially responsible. Being socially responsible has a number of quantifiable and unquantifiable benefits for the entity and its stakeholders. It improves the entity's bottom line results, protects jobs, and is also better for the environment. As such, it makes good sense for professionals and those that they interact with as colleagues, suppliers of goods and services, lenders etc to want to take the issue of CSR seriously. This perhaps explains why this book has chosen to explore how 19 professions across the world have integrated and continue to impress upon their staff the importance of CSR in their operational activities. We are constantly reminded that our world's natural resources are exhaustible; we can therefore no longer live for today alone if we do not want to cause substantial problems for future generations.

Business and Management

Professionals' Perspectives of CSR: An Introduction
Corporate Responsibility, Accounting and Accountants
Perspectives of Lawyers in Practice on CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility from the Perspective of Corporate Secretaries
Mainsteaming Corporate Social Responsibility: A Triadic Challenge from a General Management Perspective
The Company Directors' Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility
The Need to Reconsider Societal Marketing
An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility, Trust and Reputation in the Banking Profession
An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability Reporting Assessment in the Greek Banking Sector
Engineering
Industrial Engineering's Perspective of CSR
An Exploratory Study of the Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in the Greek Manufacturing Sector
Environment, Estate Management and Valuation and the Built Environment
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Investor's Perspective
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Estate Surveyors and Valuers' Perspective
Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics in Real Estate: Evidence from Turkey
Not-for Profit Organisations and Leisure
Does 'Corporate' Responsibility Apply to Not-for-Profit Organizations?
A Hotelier's Perspective of CSR
Emphasizing the 'Social' in Corporate Social Responsibility: A Social Work Perspective
Democratic Gains in Public Administration at Local Level in Terms of CSR: Theory and Practice-Based Approaches at Izmir Metropolitan City, Turkey
Education, Consultancy, Research and Human Resource Management
An Academic's Perspective on the Role of Academics in Corporate Responsibility
The Proliferation of CSR from Two Professional Perspectives: AcademicResearchers and Consultants
An Analysis of the Competence of Business School Teachers to Promote Sustainable Development in Finland
Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Resource Management: A Strategic-Balanced Model
Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century: Some Thoughts.