The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-Offs to Transformation

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford Business Books
Published: 09/03/2019
ISBN: 9781503607972
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Choice 01/01/2020