Springer Social Audit Regulation: Development, Challenges and Opportunities (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance)

This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool. The book proposes a system in which social audit is regulated so as to provide a mechanism for effectively promoting corporate accountability in society. Taking this as its theme, this book provides both a conceptual explanation of the developmental perspectives of social audit regulation and empirical evidence of the impact of social audit practice from different parts of the world. It is the first book to explore the issues and challenges related to the development of effective social audit regulation.   From the Back Cover This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool. The book proposes a system in which social audit is regulated so as to provide a mechanism for effectively promoting corporate accountability in society. Taking this as its theme, this book provides both a conceptual explanation of the developmental perspectives of social audit regulation and empirical evidence of the impact of social audit practice from different parts of the world. It is the first book to explore the issues and challenges related to the development of effective social audit regulation. About the Author Mia Rahim is a lecturer in law in the QUT Business School at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Previously, he taught law units at Macquarie University where he was pursuing his PhD with a Research Excellence Scholarship. He did his LLB with Honours and LLM from Dhaka University; LLM in International Economic Law from Warwick University as a Chevening Scholar; MPA from LKY School of Public Policy with NUS Graduate Scholarship. Before he joined academia, he was a lawyer and Joint District and Sessions Judge in Bangladesh. He also worked for the Law Commission and the High Court of Bangladesh. Mia has contributed to internationally reputed conferences and journals; some of the journals he has been published in are the Journal of Business Ethics, Law and Financial Market Review, Common Law World Review, Competition and Change, and Australian Journal of Asian Law. A special issue of the Transnational Corporation Review was published under his editorship. Palgrave Macmillan, Gower and Springer have also published his recent book chapters, encyclopaedia and dictionary entries. Two of his research monographs were published by Springer in 2013-2014. He is a member of the Center for Legal Governance of Macquarie University and Technical Committee for Asian Consumer Protection Research Network. Samuel O Idowu is a senior lecturer in Accounting and Corporate Social Responsibility at the London Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University where he was course organizer for Accounting Joint degrees, Course Leader/Personal Academic Adviser (PAA) for students taking Accounting Major/Minor and Accounting Joint degrees and currently Course Leader for Accounting and Banking degree. Samuel is a Professor of CSR and Sustainability at Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators and a named freeman of the City of London. Samuel has published about fifty or so articles in both professional and academic journals and contributed chapters in edited books and is the Editor-in-Chief of two major global reference books by Springer – the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) and the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility (DCSR) and he is a Series Editor for Springer’s books on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance. Samuel has been in academia for 27 years winning one of the Highly Commended Awards of Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence both in 2008 and 2014. In 2010, one o