Since the general acceptance of the field of corporate social responsibility worldwide, corporate entities and those who act for them either as executives or "ordinary" employees are expected to be socially responsible. Being socially responsible has a number of quantifiable and unquantifiable benefits for the entity and its stakeholders. It improves the entity's bottom line results, protects jobs, and is also better for the environment. As such, it makes good sense for professionals and those that they interact with as colleagues, suppliers of goods and services, lenders etc to want to take the issue of CSR seriously. This perhaps explains why this book has chosen to explore how 19 professions across the world have integrated and continue to impress upon their staff the importance of CSR in their operational activities. We are constantly reminded that our world's natural resources are exhaustible; we can therefore no longer live for today alone if we do not want to cause substantial problems for future generations.

Part I Business Management. Corporate Responsibility, Accounting and Accountants. Perspectives of lawyers in practice of CSR. Corporate Social Responsibility from the Perspective of Corporate Secretaries. General Management Perspective of CSR. The Company Directors¿ Perspective of CSR. The need to reconsider Societal Marketing. CSR and the Financial Services industry. An analysis of CSR and Sustainability reporting in the Greek Banking sector.- Part II Engineering. Industrial Engineering¿s Perspective of CSR. CSR in the Greek Manufacturing Sector.- Part III Investment and the Built Environment. CSR for Socially Responsible Investment. Estate Management and Valuation practices of CSR. CSR in Real Estate Investment.- Part IV Not-for-Profit Organisations, Hotel Leisure. Corporate Social Responsibility in NGOs. A Hotelier¿s Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility. Emphasizing the "Social" in Corporate Social Responsibility. Democratic Gains in Public Administration at Local Level in terms of CSR.- Part V Education, Research Consultancy, Human Resource Management. Academic Researcher¿s overview of CSR. Research and Consultancy Practices of CSR. CSR in Business School Education. Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Resource Management.