Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability during the Coronavirus Crisis

This book seeks to understand how society and businesses are affected by, and respond to, the coronavirus crisis in various parts of the world. The volume explores: new CSR perspectives given the pandemic situation; SME perspectives and responsibility during the early stages of the pandemic; how large companies responded to the crisis; the challenges and opportunities provided by the use of digital technologies; and how leaders, entrepreneurs and individuals manage in uncertain times.

Pulling together conceptual and empirical studies from Spain, Mexico, Sweden, Nigeria, Ghana and Kuwait , the book offers a truly international perspective as it examines how the pandemic has challenged a number of existing CSR assumptions, concepts and practices. It will be valuable reading for academics working in the fields of management, CSR, sustainability and crisis management.

Anna Sörensson is assistant professor and researcher in Departmentof Economics, Geography, Law and Tourism at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Besrat Tesfaye is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Södertörn University, Sweden.

Anders Lundström is professor emeritus at Mid Sweden University and managing director at the IPREG (The Institute of Innovative Entrepreneurship), Sweden.

Georgiana Grigore is Associate Professor in Marketing at University of Leicester, UK.

Alin Stancu is Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania.

Provides a truly international examination of responses to the pandemic over a variety of industries. Explores the importance of sustainability and CSR in economic reconstruction. Captures the immediate responses to the coronavirus, and explores the relationship between businesses and society during a world-wide emergency situation

Autorentext

Anna Sörensson is assistant professor and researcher in Department of Economics, Geography, Law and Tourism at Mid Sweden University, Sweden.

Besrat Tesfaye is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Södertörn University, Sweden.

Anders Lundström is professor emeritus at Mid Sweden University and managing director at the IPREG (The Institute of Innovative Entrepreneurship), Sweden.

Georgiana Grigore is Associate Professor in Marketing at University of Leicester, UK. Alin Stancu is Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania.

Inhalt

Section 1: Immediate organisational and cultural responses to Covid19.- 1.Corporate Responses to CoViD-19 Pandemic in Romania.- 2.CSR during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) Perspective.- 3.Socially Responsible and Activist Collaborative Prosumption in Creative Industries during COVID in Turkey.- 4.CSR and sustainability response during the Covid-19 crisis in Mexico.- Section 2: New opportunities for sustainability.- 5.Effect on Businesses and Sustainability on Large-sized Swedish Companies due to the Corona Virus.- 6.Exploring CSR and Sustainability Management in green and nature-based Micro-Enterprises during the Covid 19 pandemic.- 7.Corporate Sustainability and COVID-19 Responses in West Africa: The potential for sustained linkages between philanthropy and CSR practices.- Section 3: Challenges and opportunities afforded by digital technologies.- 8.Buy Social: The Challenge of Moving Social Enterprises to Successful Online Selling.- 9.Resilience, Sustainability and Digitalization: SMES and Big Corporations facing the challenges of restarting after the lockdown.- 10.The CoronaVirus makers network. Understanding the success of an innovation community facing Covid-19 in Spain.- Section 4: Entrepreneurship, leadership and corporate reflections under the Covid-19 crisis.- 11.Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship under the COVID-19 Crisis.- 12.Less Explored Attributes of Diversity and Board Effectiveness.- 13.What are the outcomes of corporate social irresponsibility (CSI)? Paradoxes and opportunities.- 14.Executives' reflections on the pandemic