Values-Driven Business

Produktbeschreibung

There's no shortage of books on how to run small businesses

But the specialised literature dealing with the increasingly high-profile topic of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR) deals almost exclusively with the concerns of large corporations.

There is no widely available information about the special value-and special challenges-of socially responsible business practices for small- or medium-size companies.

Values-Driven Business fills this gap. This book responds to changes in American culture as much as it does to changing attitudes in the business community. The marketplace is becoming increasingly concerned about where and how products are produced and how well employees are treated. Companies can no longer focus exclusively on making profits and ignore their employees' personal and family aspirations, the needs of the communities where they do business, and the burden they place on the natural environment. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1 So, Why Are You in Business?
2 Are You Ready to Take the Plunge?
3 First Things First: Your Employees
4 Turning the Value Chain into a Values Chain
5 Developing a Dialogue with Your Customers
6 Staking Out Your Place in the Community
7 Leaving a Lighter Footprint on the Planet
8 You Really Can Try This at Home!
Resources
Notes
Index
About Social Venture Network
About the Authors 

Kritik

Cohen and Warwick use simple language and abundant examples to show how any company, no matter how small, can do well by doing good.
Russ Feingold, United States Senator

"Invaluable reading for those starting or running a small- to mid-sized business and for entrepreneurial students in business schools. A practical, easy-to-read guide to running a socially responsible business from some of the most innovative and successful pioneers in the field."
Professor Kellie A. McElhaney, Executive Director, Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
 

Autoreninfo

Mal Warwick has been active in promoting social and environmental responsibility in the business community nationwide for more than a decade. He was a cofounder of Business for Social Responsibility and served on its board during its inaugural year.
155In 2001, after more than a decade as an active member, he was elected to the board of Social Venture Network and served as chair (2002 2006). He also served on the Founding Advisory Board of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002 2003.
As a consultant, author, and public speaker, Mal has been involved in the not-for-profit sector for more than forty years. He is the founder and chairman of Mal Warwick & Associates, a fund-raising and marketing agency that has served nonprofit organizations since 1979, and founded or cofounded three other companies that provide fund-raising services to nonprofit organizations throughout the country. He has written, coauthored, or edited seventeen previous books, including the standard fund-raising texts, Revolution in the Mailbox and How to Write Successful Fundraising Letters. Mal is a popular speaker and workshop leader at gatherings of fundraisers throughout the world. He has taught fund-raising on six continents to non- profit leaders from more than 100 countries.