Building New Bridges Between Business and Society

Introduction.- Part I: CSR Origins.- Part II: CSR and Sustainability.- Part III: CSR and Management.- Part IV: CSR and Asia.

Dr. Hualiang Lu is professor at School of Business Administration at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics and director of Sino-German Research Institute for Sustainable Development. Dr. Lu received his Ph.D. from Wageningen University in the field of management studies. He is Editorial Board of the Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Journal (Willy) and International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility (Springer). His research interests encompass corporate social responsibility, business ethics, corporate innovation and sustainability. His work have been published at peer reviewed journals including Supply Chain Management, British Food Journal, Agribusiness: An International Journal, NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Science, China Agricultural Economics Review, Chinese Management Studies etc., and in a variety of national journals and books.

Prof. Dr. René Schmidpeter holds the Dr. Juergen Meyer Endowed Chair of International BusinessEthics and Corporate Social Responsibility at Cologne Business School (CBS), Germany. He is also a professor at the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China; Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia and the academic head of the Zentrum für humane Marktwirtschaft (Centre for Humane Market Economy) in Salzburg, Austria. For more than 15 years, he has worked and done research in the field of corporate social responsibility. He edited several publications on CSR for Springer, for example CSR in Europe (2015), Sustainable Entrepreneurship (2014), Social Innovation (2013) and Corporate Social Responsibility (2012/2015). He is a series editor for Springer's CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance books, a section editor of the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR) and an editor of the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility (DCSR) as well as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of CSR (Springer).

Nicholas Capaldi is