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ABOUT THE BOOK

Ideas like corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stakeholder value creation are becoming second nature to businesses across the globe. Addressing the weakness of current CSR research, this Research Handbook provides a unique perspective on small business social responsibility in both the developed and developing world.
Bringing together leading international experts, and including a foreword by R. Edward Freeman, this Research Handbook defines and contextualizes CSR in small businesses across the globe. It explores issues surrounding supply chains, responsible finance, and social enterprise, offering both practitioner insights and succinct case studies to go beyond the usual Western perspective and enable a globally relevant understanding of small business social responsibility.
This Research Handbook will be an invaluable tool for researchers and educators, as well as for students of business and CSR, social enterprise, development and management.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword – R. Edward Freeman

1. Introduction
Laura J. Spence, Jedrzej George Frynas, Judy N. Muthuri and Jyoti Navare

PART I CONTEXT
2. National context matters: Influence of National Business System on social enterprises in Scotland and India
Sreevas Sahasranamam and Christopher Ball

3. Industry matters: Comparative study of Vietnam’s SME managers and workers on meaning and impacts of CSR in two manufacturing sectors
Angie Ngoc Tran and Søren Jeppesen

4. Cluster matters: Corporate Social Responsibility and Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Clusters in India
Mukesh Gulati, Peter Lund-Thomsen and Sangeetha Suresh

PART II SUPPLY CHAINS
5. Adding a small business perspective to research on working conditions in global production networks
Vivek Soundararajan

6. SME Resources and Capabilities for Sustainability Performance: A Framework for Emerging Economies
Burcin Hatipoglu

7. Small Business Social Responsibility and Sustainability Metrics: A Focus on Environmental Performance Measurement and Waste
Diego Vazquez-Brust and Laura J. Spence

PART III RESPONSIBLE FINANCE
8. Financial Development and the Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions
Niels Hermes, Robert Lensink and Aljar Meesters

9. Corporate sustainability and social responsibility of smallholder farmers: Implications for agriculture financing
Emmanuel Benjamin, Ebele Maduekwe, Maarten Punt and Gertrud Buchenrieder

10. Financial Aggregation of Risks for MSMEs in Developing Economies: A Conceptual Framework of Financial Aggregation and Microinsurance Effects
Jyoti Navare and Morrison Handley-Schachler

PART IV SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
11. Exploring the Global Potential of Social Entrepreneurship and Small Business Social Responsibility for Tackling Societal Value Creation
Anica Zeyen and Markus Beckmann

12. Social Entrepreneurship and CSR Theory: Insights, Application and Value
David Littlewood and Diane Holt

13. Hybrid organisations and models of social enterprise in Ghana and Bangladesh
Fergus Lyon and Abdullah Al Faruq

PART V ENGAGED RESEARCH AND CASE STUDIES
14. The tree of knowledge: Sustainable management practices for a collaborative ecosystem amongst small to medium enterprises
Heather Stewart and Rod Gapp

15. Enabling Sustainability in SMEs through Action Research
Patricia Hind and Arnold Smit

16. Case Study: Scaling up social responsibility among small Foundry Clusters in India
Mukesh Gulati and Ruchita Sanwal

17. Case Study: Clustering - A Way to Create Shared Value? A Case Study of a Food and Drink Cluster Organisation in England
Darla Dore

18. Case Study: Human Capital and Environmental Engagement of SMEs in Pakistan - A Comparative Analysis of the Leather Industry
Aqueel I. Wahga, Richard K. Blundel and Anja Schaefer

19. Case Study: Incubation and Relevance of Social Businesses in Rural Nepal. A case Study of a Social Business Incubator in Jumla
Ingeborg Patsch

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