Essays on Sustainability and Management Emerging Perspectives [Hardcover]

This book offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability and management in India and through its insightful essays highlights the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability as a concept. It also demonstrates the debates surrounding the concept of sustainability and its ramifications for ground-level practice in managing organisations and for public policy. The contributions from sustainability enthusiasts, practitioners from disparate fields and academics working at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, have been divided into five themes: (1) sustainability as a normative concept; (2) sustainability concept at the global level, (3) sustainability practices in Indian organisations and consumer behaviour; (4) sustainability, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility and (5) sustainability: a critique of organisational practice and government regulation. The themes reflect both new and continuing issues confronting management in the country today. Examples and in-depth studies make it relevant to the grounded reality in India. The expertise and experience of the contributors ensure that readers are left with a grasp of our current understanding of how sustainability is related to society and business, the direction this understanding will take in the future.Chapter 1. Introduction by Runa Sarkar and Annapurna Shaw.- Theme 1: Sustainability and development: Search for the good life.- Chapter 2. Sustainability and the good life by Anup Sinha.- Chapter 3. Role of Social Media in Environmental Awareness by Indranil Bose.- Chapter 4. Trade and Sustainable development in the WTO: The story of an uneasy relationship by Rajesh Babu.- Theme 2: Sustainability and the Judicial and Religious order.- &l3$