Innovation, Social Responsibility and Sustainability Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility Series

While global challenges such as a future pandemics and global warming seem insurmountable, innovation and cumulative small changes can help towards managing such disruptive events. Innovation can encompass a new way of doing things, new products and services, and new solutions; in organizations where innovation can flourish, progress and resilience can be achieved. This edited collection draws together a number of chapters, organized into two parts ? developing social responsibility and developing sustainability ? both of which are interlinked and interdependent. Topics presented range from: mandatory CSR in the banking industry to the professional integration of displaced persons to knowledge for and about sustainability, and many more. The diversity of the chapters gift readers an interdisciplinary examination of innovation, social responsibility and sustainability. Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility offers the latest research on topical issues by international experts and has practical relevance to business managers.

Part 1. Developing Social Responsibility Chapter 1. Towards A Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility for Banks in Challenging Institutional Contexts: A Case Study of Nigeria; Victor Ediagbonya Chapter 2. Factors Influencing Willingness-to-Repurchase Airline Services in Nigeria; Adetayo Olaniyi Adeniran, Ikpechukwu Njoku, and Mobolaji S. Stephens Chapter 3. Professional integration of displaced persons; Hajaina Ravoaja Chapter 4. Practice of Female Genital Mutilation in West Africa; Ilugbami Joseph Olanrewaju and Oluwadamisi Tayo-Ladega Chapter 5. Gender-Based Violence in North-West Nigeria; Oluwadamisi Tayo-Ladega and Ilugbami Joseph Olanrewaju Chapter 6. COVID-19 induced shift in CSR: An empirical investigation; Taral Pathak, Srushti Govilkar, and Ruchi Tewari Part 2. Developing Sustainability Chapter 7. Bioconversion of Mauritius Hemp hydrolysate into polyhydroxybutyrate biopolymer; Nausheen Jaffur, Pratima Jeetaha, and Gopalakrishnan Kumar Chapter 8. But what does sustainability mean? The groundwork for knowledge about sustainability and knowledge for sustainability; Florian Kragulj, Anna Katharina Grill, Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, and Arminda do Paço Chapter 9. How the UN SDGs have affected sustainability reporting activity of Spanish public universities?; Francisco Javier Andrades Peña, Domingo Martinez Martinez, and Manuel Larrán Jorge

Professional and scholarly

David Crowther is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at several universities including Bedfordshire university, UK, who previously worked in government and industry for twenty years, a career culminating in his role as divisional managing director of a multinational. In 2002 he established the Social Responsibility Research Network, an international body which now has several thousand members. His current research focuses on sustainability and governance in the modern environment. Shahla Seifi is an engineer by training and worked at a senior level preparing standards for the national institute of Iran before moving to the UK. She now researches, writes, organises SRRNet activities (SRRNet.org) and runs her own consultancy.