Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability in Business How Organizations Handle Profits and Social Duties

This edited volume is a direct implication of an international brainstorming session of like-minded individuals who gathered at Brandies University during September 2008. The primary themes and agendas discussed during the panel discussion focuses on social, environmental and economic responsibilities of organizations and related concerns. A major theme which was advocated by the organizing group (including The Indus Entrepreneurs or TiE) is related to promoting, nurturing and ensuring as to how social entrepreneurship at a global level can and would flourish. In a more general sense, the intent of the organizing forum was to promote entrepreneurship among business oriented individuals, albeit with a social twist and at a grand global level. Here, let me bring into the readers’ kind attention that somewhat similar to this already exists in the Business Ethics literature and commonly referred to as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Anyways, the most significant and eye catching phrase which has been utilized by the editors of the book is termed “Global Social Entrepreneurship” (seems like CSR is extended and rechristened into a new avatar) and the chapters that have been included substantiates and lends support to the phrase by way of experiences and experimental implementation of this new avatar.