The A to Z of CSR:
A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations

Authors: Wayne Visser, Dirk Matten, Manfred Pohl, Nick Tolhurst

Publisher: Wiley, UK

ISBN: 978-0-470-72395-1
Hardcover
544 pages
November 2007
The book may be purchased from Wiley and is also available at a discount if purchased directly from ICCA (Delivery from 31 October onwards).

ICCA, in cooperation with leading academics and business people, has compiled the world's first and only CSR Encyclopaedia to be published this year.

The interest surrounding Corporate Social Responsibility has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the last few years engaging business, the media, politics and the academic domain. This one-of-a-kind dictionary will serve as a standard reference work for managers, academics, teachers, students, officials and volunteers in the area of CSR and will provide answers to questions such as:

  • What is meant by Corporate Social Responsibility?
  • In what way are corporations viewed as citizens of the countries in which they operate?
  • How does a company know when it is operating in a sustainable way?
  • And what is ethical investment?

The Encyclopaedia contains over 300 terms which are divided into Core Concepts, Key Words and Definitions. Terms and organisations include for example "stakeholder", "sustainability", "Global Compact" or "SustainAbility".


Authors include, among others, the following:

  • Mary Robinson - Director, The Ethical Globalization Initiative, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
  • Jonathan Porritt - Founder and Programme Director, Forum for the Future and Chairman, UK Commission of Sustainable Development
  • Prof. Philip Kotler - Kellogg School of Management, and world authority on marketing
  • David Nussbaum - CEO, Transparency International
  • John Elkington - Founder of SustainAbility
  • Judge Mervyn King - Chairman, UN Special Committee on Governance and Oversight, First President of the Commonwealth Association of Corporate Governance; Chairman, King Committee on Corporate Governance
  • Harriet Lamb - Executive Director, Fairtrade Foundation

The "A to Z of CSR" is an ICCA publication, published by Wiley.
Board of Editors: Katja Böhmer, Aron Ghebremariam, Judith Hennigfeld, Sandra Huble, Dirk Matten, Manfred Pohl, Nick Tolhurst, Wayne Visser
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