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About the Book

The present edition of Corporate Social Responsibility: Challenges in the Age of Globalisation is an up-to-date and comprehensive study covering the whole spectrum of the social responsibilities of the corporate sector. It covers the basic ideas—traditional as well as modern, social and ethical policies as well as perspectives and issues related to corporate citizenship—in the first three chapters of this edition. Economic liberalisation and social responsibility of Indian corporate sector has been explained in the fourth chapter. The fifth chapter deals with the strategy for promoting CSR in Africa, while the   sixth chapter explains the economic crisis of 1997 in East Asia and the prospects of CSR. Chapter eighth discuss about the challenges for the corporatisation and CSR in contemporary China, while the last chapter is all about the measurement of CSR.

About the Authors

Dr. P.V. Khatri is a Principal of Swami Shradhanand College, University of Delhi. He has been associated with teaching and research on consumer affairs, consumer protection laws, social responsibility of business, corporate laws and governance in various institutions of higher learning including Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Indian Law Institute (Deemed University) and Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA).

Dr. Indu Baghel is teaching political science and public administration in the University of Delhi. She visited Portugal for her doctoral work on “Local Administration in Angola during the Portuguese Colonial Rule” under the joint fellowship of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India) and University of Delhi. Her special areas of research include governance, citizenship, democracy, corporate ethics and social responsibility of business.