Corporate Resilience
Risk, Sustainability and Future Crises
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The world has gone through profound change since 2019, which has impacted economies, organisations, societies, and ways of working. Now, more than ever, businesses need to be prepared and resilient to large-scale changes. Written by experts, the chapters collected here address various issues such as climate change and the pandemic, suggesting ways in which future crises can be managed successfully and sharing best practice from what we have learned from recent crises.
The globally diverse authorship in Corporate Resilience brings together a range of perspectives on corporate resilience and crisis management from varying industries to explore this topic in great depth. Areas studied range from building global resilience through sustainable development and social responsibility, to corporate resilience, environmental investment, internet financial reporting and reporting on human rights.
Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility offers the latest research on topical issues international experts and has practical relevance to business managers.
Part 1. Building Global Resilience
- Chapter 1. Resilience, Dynamism and Sustainable Development: Adaptive Organisational Capability through Learning in Recurrent Crises; Dianne Bolton, Mohshin Habib, and Terry Landells
- Chapter 2. Social Aspects of Telework and Organisations during an Unforeseen Crisis; Ana Maria Davila Gomez and David Crowther
- Chapter 3. Building Resilience for a Future Organisation; Elaine Conway and Parminder Johal
- Chapter 4. Rethinking Sustainable Development Under Climate Change in Nigeria: A Strategic Analysis; Lukman Raimi and Fatimah Mayowa Lukman
- Chapter 5. Socio Cultural and Religious Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India; Amit Kumar Srivastava, Shailja Dixit, and AkanshaAbhi Srivastava
- Part 2. Corporate Resilience
- Chapter 6. A Paradigm for Examining the Interplay of Environmental Investment, Environmental Disclosure and Firm Performance in China; Ruopiao Zhang and Carlos Noronha
- Chapter 7. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction Uncertainties in E-contract’s Commercial Governance: A Recommendation for Mauritius; Ambareen Beebeejaun and Rajendra Parsad Gunputh
- Chapter 8. What Shapes Internet Financial Reporting in Africa? Exploring Firm v Country Factors; Dineshwar Ramdhony, Oren Mooneeapen, and Ajmal Bakerally
- Chapter 9. Effectiveness of the Lean Service Principle in controlling the Civil Service Wage Bill: A Case Study of the Government of Eswatini; Sabelo G. Sifundza and Md. Humayun Kabir
- Chapter 10. Towards Sustainable Prosperity for Host Communities: Appraisal of the Nigerian Petroleum Industry Act 2021; Victor Ediagbonya and Comfort Tioluwani
- Chapter 11. Reporting on Human Rights by Large Corporates: Interplay between Comprehensiveness and Narrative Manipulation; Leana Esterhuyse and Elda du Toit
Shahla Seifi is an Engineer by training and worked at a senior level preparing standards for the national institute of Iran before moving to the UK. She now researches, writes, organises SRRNet activities (SRRNet.org) and runs her own consultancy.
David Crowther is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at several universities including Bedfordshire university, UK, who previously worked in government and industry for twenty years, a career culminating in his role as divisional managing director of a multinational. In 2002 he established the Social Responsibility Research Network, an international body which now has several thousand members. His current research focuses on sustainability and governance in the modern environment.