Table of Contents

A. REGIONAL PROFILES I. Africa Ullrich Klins, Jurie H. Van Niekerk and Arnold Smit  II Asia Felipe B. Alfonso, Maria Elena B. Herrera and Francisco L. Roman  III Europe Laura Maanavilja  IV Latin America Estrella Peinado-Vara and Antonio Vives  V Middle East Abbe Le Pelley  B. COUNTRY PROFILES 1 Argentina María Irigoyen  2 Armenia Nazareth Seferian  3 Australia Leeora D. Black  4 Austria Alice Schmidt  5 Azerbaijan Ahad Kazimov  6 Bangladesh Niaz Alam  7 Brazil Camila Yamahaki and Tarcila Reis Ursini  8 Bulgaria Deyana Marcheva and Nadejda Loumbeva  9 Canada Dermot Hikisch  10 China Sam Yoon-Suk Lee and Joshua Wickerham  11 Colombia Angela Pinilla Urzola  12 Côte d’Ivoire Ulf Richter  13 Denmark Tania Ellis and Jonas Eder-Hansen  14 Finland Arno Kourula  15 Germany Nick Tolhurst and Aron Embaye  16 Ghana Daniel F. Ofori  17 Greece Kiara Konti  18 Hungary Attila Kun  19 Iceland Hanna Thorsteinsdottir  20 India Bimal Arora and Aparna Mahajan  21 Indonesia Yanuar Nugroho, Jimmy Tanaya, Theresia Widiyanti and Adhitya Hadi Permana  22 Iran Alireza Omidvar  23 Ireland Tomás Sercovich  24 Israel Ivri Verbin and Dena Freeman  25 Japan Luke Poliszcuk and Motoko Sakashita  26 Jordan Dima Abdeljalil Maaytah  27 Kenya Judy N. Muthuri and Kiarie Mwaura  28 Liberia Marcus S. Wleh  29 Malaysia Roger Haw Boon Hong  30 Mauritius Renginee G. Pillay  31 Mexico Leonardo J. Cárdenas  32 The Netherlands Jennifer Iansen-Rogers  33 Nigeria Kenneth Amaeshi and Chris Ogbechie  34 Norway Inge Aarhus  35 Pakistan Khadeeja Ashaah Balkhi  36 Peru Cristian Loza Adaui  37 The Philippines Francisco L. Roman and Maria Elena B. Herrera  38 Poland Liliana Anam  39 Portugal Maria Lemos  40 Romania Rodica Milena Zaharia, Alin Stancu and Liviu Chelcea  41 Russia Alexey Kostin  42 Saudi Arabia Tareq Emtairah  43 Senegal Oumhany Sy  44 Sierra Leone Nicole Porto  45 Singapore Thomas Thomas  46 South Africa Mervyn E. King, Derick de Jongh and René Carapinha  47 South Korea Angela Joo-Hyun Kang and Sam Yoon-Suk Lee  48 Spain José Manuel Almela Burgos, Germán Granda Revilla and Ricardo Trujillo Fernández  49 Sri Lanka Lalith Gunaratne and Ravi Fernando  50 Switzerland Heiko Spitzeck  51 Tanzania Sarah Lauwo  52 Thailand Alex P. Mavro Jr  53 Turkey Dixie O’Donnell  54 Uganda Cedric Marvin Nkiko and David Katamba  55 United Arab Emirates Aparna Mahajan  56 United Kingdom David Grayson CBE  57 United States of America Audra Jones  58 Venezuela Perla Puterman Szomstein

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The first book to provide comparable national profiles that describe the evolution and practice of CSR for 58 countries and 5 global regions.

About the Author

WAYNE VISSER is Founder and Director of the think-tank CSR International.



NICK TOLHURST is a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy and a lecturer on CSR at the Steinbeis University in Berlin.

Reviews

... wherever you are in the world, the World Guide to CSR will prime you on what is most important to know about CSR. ... The impressive list of contributors to this volume, 87 in all, are the crème de la crème of CSR knowledge and include leading academics, business people and practitioners from all over the global village. The country profiles are of a exceedingly high quality ... The profiles are superbly edited to give consistency of scope and depth, country by country. ... Why is this book useful? It serves as a start-point for any study of CSR anywhere in the world, as each profile contains an impressive list of links and references. It is a learning aid because the local case studies provide outlines of the key CSR activities by key corporates – the leading edge of CSR around the world. It serves as a guide for those wanting to develop their own CSR programs. Read the full review - CSRwire, 17 August 2010 - Elaine CohenThis book offers a very useful, quick to access, reference guide for the differing approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) found around the world. The consistent formatting of the book lends itself to easy readability, with easily accessible quick "takeaway lessons" by country. However, this can also be a shortcoming as one could argue this runs the risk of feeding the reader (who is likely to be a practitioner looking for a quick solution) with an oversimplifications of CSR in the form of overly high level generalizations. CSR is inherently complex, and inherently cultural. This book takes a step in the right direction in acknowledging there are many differing approaches to CSR, and it does so in an interesting way that will hopefully help to encourage industry to engage with and be a bit more sensitive to the differing needs of stakeholders across the planet. It will perhaps help to support Wayne Visser's call at the conclusion of his foreword to "make sure that business lives up to its potential as a force for good in the world." - Journal of Consumer Policy 33.4 (2010)