Corporate Political Responsibility: How Businesses Can Strengthen Democracy for Mutual Benefit

This book demonstrates how companies can promote their business by assuming political responsibility and expanding their investment concept to include a political component. It shows that the success of companies is crucially dependent on socio-political conditions, and that politically sustainable management is a business case. It provides an overview of the public realm and its actors, and shows how companies can strengthen the performance of the state and thus their own performance through political contributions.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 193 pages
\n Publication date: 27 December 2020
\n Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
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This book explores the compelling argument that companies can effectively promote their business by embracing political responsibility and expanding their investment concept to incorporate a political component. It underscores the critical importance of socio-political conditions in determining the success of companies. In essence, politically sustainable management represents a compelling business case, urging companies to take a closer look at the opportunities at the intersection of politics and business.

To date, there has been a lack of a comprehensive assessment of Corporate Political Responsibility (CPR), which combines a conceptual framework with practical measures for implementation. This book addresses that gap, providing a comprehensive guide for companies to develop the necessary attitude and engage in concrete CPR fields of action, supported by diagrams and examples.

While clarifying the distinction between CPR and mere lobbying or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the author offers an overview of the public realm and its actors, demonstrating how political contributions can enhance the performance of the state and, consequently, the performance of companies. Companies possess unique resources to leverage for this purpose, and it is in their best interest to actively engage, particularly in maintaining impartiality but being partial in principle, when it comes to the values and principles of our liberal way of life.

\n Weight: 468g\n
Dimension: 161 x 241 x 22 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9783662621219\n
Edition number: 2021 ed.\n