Friday, December 12, 2008

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility or Public Budgeting Systems

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders in a Global Environment

Author: William B Werther

Be sure to check out reviews and testimonials for this book!
 
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders in a Global Environment
provides faculty and students with a comprehensive, stand-alone text to support traditional and innovative courses in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Integral to the book's unique format is the real-life "mini-case-study" approach across the spectrum of CSR topics, backed by Internet accessible references. Adopting a stakeholder approach to CSR, the content and format of this sourcebook defines CSR within the global communications environment in which multinational corporations operate today.  

Key Features:  

  • Provides 45 Web-based case-studies linked to relevant Web sites for further exploration
  • Recognizes cross-cultural trends developing throughout the world
  • Encourages a multidisciplinary approach
  • References to the Wall Street Journal throughout
  • Includes Instructor's Resources on CD with PowerPoint slides, a test bank with answers, answers to in-text questions, suggested team or individual projects, and in-class surveys/activities  ISBN: 1-4129-2477-4
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility provides a flexible and up-to-date teaching tool for upper level undergraduate and graduate CSR courses in Management, Marketing, Business Law, and Political Science.  

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New interesting book: Business Analysis and Valuation or Foundations of Macroeconomics

Public Budgeting Systems

Author: Robert D Le

This edition emphasizes methods by which financial decisions are reached within a system, as well as ways in which different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making.

Booknews

New edition of a general examination of public budgeting that surveys the current state of the art among all levels of government in the US. Covers the distinction between the public and private sectors, budget cycles, budget preparation, approval and execution of a budget, financial management, and intergovernmental relations. The authors stress the use of program information since budget reforms for decades have sought to introduce greater program considerations into financial decisions. Intended primarily for budget practitioners and scholars. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.



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