Corporate Impact

Measuring and Managing Your Social Footprint
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84407-653-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

It is widely accepted that sustainability has an inescapable social component, but companies find it very hard to understand and measure their social impacts. Why is this? This book, by noted CSR practitioner, consultant and educator Adrian Henriques, provides the first coherent approach to identifying, understanding, measuring and accounting for corporate social impact.

Beginning with an analysis of the nature of corporate social impact and the role of the stakeholder, the complex relationship of social impact to economic and environmental impacts is explored. This naturally leads to an examination of the contribution which social impact makes to business practice, profitability and ultimately to global sustainability.

The second part of the book assesses the theory and practise of some of the critical measures of social impact which have been developed to date. This includes Social Return on Investment (SROI), local economic impact (LM3) and social capital as well as more established techniques. It also explores new approaches such as 'social footprinting'. This is rounded out by presentation of a social accounting framework and how this can operate in parallel to standard financial accounting procedures.

This volume provides a clear, digestible and practical roadmap for companies wishing to take responsibility for their role in society and improve their internal and external performance.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henriques, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. The Social Purpose of Companies

3. Complicity and the Sexual Exploitation of Children - a case study

4. Sustainability's Social Side

5. Thinking like a Stakeholder

6. The Voice of the Stakeholder

7. Sociological Impacts

8. Signs of Impact

9. Reporting Social Impact

10. Measuring Economic Impact

11. Investing in Impact

12. Social Footprint

13. Accounting for Social Impact

14. The Elusiveness of the Social Revisited

Appendix I - Market Research

Appendix II - Analysis of GRI Social Indicators

Appendix III - SROI Case Study

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Adrian Henriques is an independent adviser, writer, researcher, teacher and campaigner on corporate responsibility, social accountability and sustainability. He is professor of Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility at Middlesex University, and the author of Corporate Truth: The Limits to Transparency (Earthscan, 2007).