Business and Community

The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility in India
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-81-321-0955-6
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 849 g

Business and Community is a historical narrative which also highlights emerging critical issues and the achievements as well as deficits of Indian CSR. Its objectives are threefold:

- To enhance public knowledge, understanding and appreciation of what Indian business has contributed to society

- To enthuse the business community as a whole, especially the younger generation, by highlighting exemplary individualsmpanies in the history of Indian CSR

- To identify the factors which inhibit or encourage CSR so as to enable business and government to take appropriate action

Written in a simple, non-jargonistic language, it is easy to understand without being simplistic. Its extensive bibliography will be useful for further research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sundar, Pushpa

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Ratan N Tata
Preface
Introduction
Private Wealth for Public Good
PART ONE: BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY: YESTERDAY (1850-1990)
Merchants to Multinationals: Growth of Indian Business
Merchant Charity (1850-1941)
Corporate Philanthropy (1941-1960)
Towards Corporate Social Responsibility (1960-1990)
PART TWO: BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY: GLOBALIZATION AND BEYOND (1990-2012)
Winds of Change
CSR in Action
The Challenges
PART THREE: BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY: TOMORROW
CSR as Trusteeship
Appendices
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sundar, Pushpa
Pushpa Sundar has over 30 years of experience in the field of development and civil society. Starting her career as an Indian Administrative Service officer in 1963 (from which she resigned in 1966), she has since worked in a variety of organizations—national, and international, non-profit, government and corporate, such as the Ford Foundation, the Government of Gujarat, FICCI, and the National Foundation for India. She has also consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation and others.

The exposure to international philanthropy as Senior Fellow under the International Fellows in Philanthropy Programme of the Johns Hopkins University in 1995 led to her being the moving spirit behind the establishment of Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy, New Delhi, a national intermediary organization to promote and strengthen Indian philanthropy, and becoming its fi rst Executive Director (from 1996 till July 2005). She was also associated with WINGS (Worldwide Initiative for Grantmaker Support) and WINGS–CF (WINGS Community Foundations) from their inception till recently.

She is currently a trustee of Partners in Change, Delhi, a nonprofit organization promoting corporate social responsibility, having been associated with it since inception as a founder member. She has also been on the board of several other non-profi t organizations such as the Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR),Jaipur, the Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi and South Asian Fund Raising Group, New Delhi.

She has written extensively in national and international journals, newspapers, and magazines on a variety of subjects, especially on issues of social concern. Her published works include Patrons and Philistines: Arts and the State in British India, Beyond Business: From Merchant Charity to Corporate Citizenship, Foreign Aid for Indian NGOs: Problem or Solution?, For God’s Sake: Religious Charity and Social Development in India.