Corporate governance and CSR

As part of the ESRC’s seminar series on governance, CSR and SMEs in emerging economies, a conference on the subject took place in ACCA’s London headquarters on 19 November 2014.

The event brought together key researchers and practitioners to consider the role of appropriate governance frameworks for encouraging socially responsible behaviour and commercial success among emerging and developing country SMEs.

Professor Jeremy Moon gave his presentation from an academic perspective.

Jeremy Moon

Jeremy Moon is Velux Professor of Corporate Sustainability at the the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, CBS.  He was previously founding Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, University of Nottingham.  His most recent visiting position was Gourlay Professor of Ethics in Business, Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

Jeremy has written widely about the rise, context, dynamics and impact of CSR.  He is particularly interested in corporations’ political roles and in the regulation of CSR and corporate sustainability.  He has published in many leading management, business and society, and business ethics journals. He is co-author of Corporations and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and author of the Very Short Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2014).  He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2008) and of the Business, Value Creation and Society series (Cambridge University Press).