Corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to grow as an area of interest in academia and business. Encompassing broad topics such as the relationship between business, society, and government, environmental issues, globalization, and the social and ethical dimensions of management and corporate operation, CSR has become an increasingly interdisciplinary subject relevant to areas of economics, sociology, and psychology, among others.

New directions in CSR research include advanced 'micro' based investigations in organizational behaviour and human resource management, additional studies of environmental social responsibility and sustainability, further research on 'strategic' CSR, connections between social responsibility and entrepreneurship, and improvements in methods and data analysis as the field matures. Through authoritative contributions from international scholars across the social sciences, this Handbook provides a cohesive overview of this recent expansion. It introduces new perspectives, new methodologies, and new evidence from a range of disciplines to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary research and global implementation of corporate social responsibility.

About the Author:
Abagail McWilliams, Associate Dean and Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Deborah E. Rupp, Professor of Psychology, George Mason University, Donald S. Siegel, Foundation Professor of Public Policy and Management and Director, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Günter Stahl, Professor of International Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business, David A. Waldman, Professor of Management, Arizona State University

Abagail McWilliams is Associate Dean and Professor in the College of Business, University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research on Corporate Social Responsibility has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies.

Deborah E. Rupp is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University, USA. She specializes in the psychometric, technological, cross-cultural, legal, and ethical issues inherent in workplace behavioral assessment. She also consults and conducts research in the areas of organizational justice/ethics, corporate social responsibility, and humanitarian work psychology.

Donald S. Siegel is Foundation Professor of Public Policy and Management and Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. Publications include Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (Oxford University Press) and articles on Corporate Social Responsibility in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and Leadership Quarterly. He is an editor of Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Technology Transfer, and an associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis.

Günter K. Stahl is Professor of International Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). Prior to joining WU Vienna, he served for eight years as a full-time faculty member at INSEAD. His research interests include leadership and leadership development, corporate social responsibility, migration and acculturation, and the dynamics of international teams, alliances, mergers, and acquisitions. His research has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals and recognized by many awards, including the Carolyn Dexter Award of the Academy of Management, and the SAGE/ Journal of Leadership Award for the most significant contribution to advance leadership and organizational studies.

David A. Waldman is a professor of management in the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. His research interests focus largely on leadership processes, especially at the upper levels of organizations and in a global context, and he has published in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology, as well as write-ups in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and the Financial Times.