"Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation (Fifth Edition) redefines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as being central to the value-creating purpose of the firm. Based on a theory of empowered stakeholders, this bestselling text argues that the responsibility of a corporation is to create value, broadly defined. The primary challenge for managers today is to balance the competing interests of the firm's stakeholders' understanding that what they expect today may not be what they will expect tomorrow. This tension is what makes CSR so complex and demanding, but it is also what makes CSR integral to the firm's strategy and day-to-day operations. In this new Fifth Edition, author David Chandler explores why some firms are better at CSR and how other firms can improve their CSR efforts. Keep your course content up-to-date! Subscribe to David Chandler's 'CSR Newsletters' by e-mailing him at david.chandler@ucdenver.edu. The newsletters are designed to be a dynamic complement to the text that can be used for in-class discussion and debate. Past newslList of figures -- Glossary -- CSR terms -- Strategy terms -- Preface: fifth edition -- Why CSR matters -- CSR as value creation -- Studying CSR -- Plan of the book -- Content chapters -- Case studies -- Supplementary materials -- CSR newsletter -- Additional online support -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Corporate social responsibility -- 1. What is CSR? -- A new definition of CSR -- The evolution of CSR -- Foundations of CSR -- An ethical argument for CSR -- A moral argument for CSR -- A rational argument for CSR -- An economic argument for CSR -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions for discussion and review -- 2. The driving forces of CSr -- Affluence -- Inequality within countries -- Inequality among countries -- Sustainability -- Globalization -- Communication -- Mobile devices -- Social meia -- Brands -- Brands with attitude -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions for discussion and review -- Case study: religion -- Religion and capitalism -- Islamic finance -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions for discussion and review -- Next steps -- Part II: A stakeholder perspective -- 3. Stakeholder theory -- Stakeholder definition -- A new definition --Stakeholder prioritization -- organization, economic, and societal stakeholders -- Evolving issues -- Prioritizing among issues and stakeholders -- A model of stakeholder management -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions ofr discussion and review -- 4. Corporate stakeholder responsibility -- CSR: a corporate responsibility? -- Milton Friedman vs. Charles handy -- CSR: a stakeholder responsibility? -- Stakeholder engagement -- Caring stakeholders -- Informed stakeholders -- Transparent stakeholders -- Educated stakeholders -- Engaged stakeholders -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions for discussion and review -- Case study: Capitalism -- The financial crisis -- Moral hazard -- Global capitalism -- Occupy wall street -- The financial crisis-ten years on -- The rise of Socialism? -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions for discussion and review -- Next steps -- Part III: A legal perspective -- 5. Corporate rights and responsibilities -- Corporate rights -- Citizens united -- Corporate responsibilities -- Corporate governance -- Benefit corporations -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions for discussion and review -- 6. Who owns the firm? -- History of the corporation -- Limited liability and the stock market -- Shareholders own shares -- A legal person -- Business judgment rule -- Fiduciary duty -- Dodge v. Ford -- Stakeholders, not shareholders -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions for discussion and review -- Case study: Media -- CNN -- Facebook -- Fake news -- Addiction -- Privacy -- Strategic CSR debate -- Questions for discussion and review -- Next steps -- Part IV: A behavioral perspective -- 7. etters are archived as a freely-available resource for instructors and students at: http://strategiccsr-sage.blogspot.com/"-- Provid