This book provides a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the ISO 26000 standard for
social responsibility (SR) in businesses and corporations. In addition to discussing the
standard's focus on various stakeholders and seven core topics the book underscores its key
aspects and most debatable issues with a focus on its connection to sustainable business
practices. It presents numerous cases and practical examples of the ISO 26000's implementation
and discusses the outcomes and lessons learned in terms of the extent to which organizations
can envision practicing CSR in ways that fit their activities stakeholders and
environment.Lately the ISO 26000 has proved to offer an interesting and important approach to
the standardization of (corporate) social responsibility. Approached and perceived as a
voluntary standard that does not include any specific requirements determining the best way to
implement and work with it involved a considerable amount of experimentation. This book
showcases the current state of application and discusses how different countries have developed
their own specific versions of the standard which organizations can use to certify their SR
processes.
