ISO 26000 - A Standardized View on Corporate Social Responsibility

Description

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the ISO 26000 standard for social responsibility (SR) in businesses and corporations. In addition to discussing the standard’s focus on various stakeholders and seven core topics, the book underscores its key aspects and most debatable issues, with a focus on its connection to sustainable business practices. It presents numerous cases and practical examples of the ISO 26000’s implementation and discusses the outcomes and lessons learned, in terms of the extent to which organizations can envision practicing CSR in ways that fit their activities, stakeholders and environment. Lately, the ISO 26000 has proved to offer an interesting and important approach to the standardization of (corporate) social responsibility. Approached and perceived as a voluntary standard that does not include any specific requirements, determining the best way to implement and work with it involved a considerable amount of experimentation. This book showcases the current state of application and discusses how different countries have developed their own specific versions of the standard, which organizations can use to certify their SR processes. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv ISO 26000—A Standardised View of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices, Cases and Facts: An Introduction (Samuel O. Idowu)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 ISO 26000 Implementation: The Case of Top Romanian Companies (Radu Ogarca, Silvia Puiu)....Pages 11-28 ISO 26000: A Vital Vector in Interconnecting the Human Resource Management Standards (Cătălin Mihail Barbu, Monica Logofătu, Camelia Olari)....Pages 29-45 The Adoption of ISO 26000 in Practice: Empirical Results from The Netherlands (Lars Moratis, Alice Tatang Widjaja)....Pages 47-61 ISO 26000: Is It a Case of Implementation or Simple Reporting? An Exploration of CSR Standards in Companies in Romania (Claudiu Bocean, Catalina Sitnikov)....Pages 63-79 ISO 26000: A Brief Literature Review (Diana Iulia Popa, Dan-Cristian Dabija)....Pages 81-92 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 ISO 26000 in Corporate Sustainability Practices: A Case Study of the Forest and Energy Companies in Bioeconomy (Anne Toppinen, Mirja Mikkilä, Katja Lähtinen)....Pages 95-113 Anticipating and Assessing Corporate Social Responsibility Within ISO 26000 Implementation: The Experience of Camst Cooperative (Italy) (Mara Del Baldo, Selena Aureli)....Pages 115-136 ISO 26000: The Toyota Motor Corporation’s CSR Approaches in India (Lars E. Isaksson, Nayan Mitra)....Pages 137-157 A Cost-Benefit Analysis of ISO’s Standard on Social Responsibility: A Review and Appraisal (Mark Anthony Camilleri)....Pages 159-175 Aspects of ISO 26000 Related to Transaction and Environmental Costs (Ninel Nesheva-Kiosseva)....Pages 177-191 Front Matter ....Pages 193-193 Expectations Versus Applications: Five Years with ISO 26000 in Norway (Caroline D. Ditlev-Simonsen)....Pages 195-206 Organisational Challenges to Corporate Social Responsibility (Rafael Mattos Deus, Bruno Michel Roman Pais Seles, Karina Rabelo Ogasawara Vieira, Rosane Aparecida Gomes Battistelle)....Pages 207-219 Back Matter ....Pages 221-225