The 360° Corporation
Author | : Sarah Kaplan |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781503610439 |
ISBN-13 | : 1503610438 |
Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Download or read book The 360° Corporation written by Sarah Kaplan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address stakeholder demands from every direction: consumers want socially responsible products; employees want meaningful work; investors now screen on environmental, social, and governance criteria; "clicktivists" create social media storms over company missteps. CEOs now realize that their companies must be social as well as commercial actors, but stakeholder pressures often create trade-offs with demands to deliver financial performance to shareholders. How can companies respond while avoiding simple "greenwashing" or "pinkwashing"? This book lays out a roadmap for organizational leaders who have hit the limits of the supposed win-win of shared value to explore how companies can cope with real trade-offs, innovating around them or even thriving within them. Suggesting that the shared-value mindset may actually get in the way of progress, bestselling author Sarah Kaplan shows in The 360° Corporation how trade-offs, rather than being confusing or problematic, can actually be the source of organizational resilience and transformation.