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In her book, Dr Ulpiana Kocollari presents a unique contribution to the debate on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability by clearly expressing how the configuration of a firm’s social dimension can help identify inclusive corporate governance models, define innovative management processes and reshape performance measurement systems for the evaluation and assessment of sustainable economic, social and environmental results. Moving a step further, a firm’s social dimension is defined within the configuration of stakeholders – resources – rewards patterns intrinsic to their interactions with their environment and embedded in their business activities. Based on this approach, a framework is provided to guide firms in identifying management activities grounded in and suited to their prevalent patterns, in order to support current and future strategies and establish adequate measurement and communication tools for pursuing their mission. The book contains original theoretical and empirical material and particular attention is paid to the principal social and environmental impact measurement models (i.e. Global Reporting Initiative, Social Return on Investments, Social Balanced Scorecard, etc.), analysing their main features in order to pinpoint their adequacy in assessing the social dimension and to tailor their use more closely to the specific patterns to which they refer. Finally, a detailed application of the analysis framework, which the author has identified is proposed for Innovative Start-Ups with a Social Goal and for Benefit Corporations, in order to detect the patterns embedded in their social dimension and their distinctive traits, which influence their management and measurement processes.

In her book, Dr Ulpiana Kocollari presents a unique contribution to the debate on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability by clearly expressing how the configuration of a firm’s social dimension can help identify inclusive corporate governance models, define innovative management processes and reshape performance measurement systems for the evaluation and assessment of sustainable economic, social and environmental results. Moving a step further, a firm’s social dimension is defined within the configuration of stakeholders – resources – rewards patterns intrinsic to their interactions with their environment and embedded in their business activities. Based on this approach, a framework is provided to guide firms in identifying management activities grounded in and suited to their prevalent patterns, in order to support current and future strategies and establish adequate measurement and communication tools for pursuing their mission. The book contains original theoretical and empirical material and particular attention is paid to the principal social and environmental impact measurement models (i.e. Global Reporting Initiative, Social Return on Investments, Social Balanced Scorecard, etc.), analysing their main features in order to pinpoint their adequacy in assessing the social dimension and to tailor their use more closely to the specific patterns to which they refer. Finally, a detailed application of the analysis framework, which the author has identified is proposed for Innovative Start-Ups with a Social Goal and for Benefit Corporations, in order to detect the patterns embedded in their social dimension and their distinctive traits, which influence their management and measurement processes.

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Sostenibilità e Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa (RSI), rappresentano per imprese, operatori economici, politici e sociali un tema di profondo interesse. Per il successo economico delle aziende, infatti, è oggi imprescindibile, l’apprezzamento e il consenso dei propri stakeholder. È, quindi, necessario, in primis nella definizione delle strategie aziendali, contemperare gli interessi di tutti i soggetti coinvolti nell’attività svolta, in una prospettiva che abbraccia le istanze di natura economico-reddituale e quelle etiche, sociali e ambientali. Per questo, l’assunzione di responsabilità sociale deve essere profondamente radicata nella governance aziendale. Parimenti, gli aspetti di comunicazione della RSI rivestono un ruolo fondamentale sia per adempiere ai doveri assunti dall’azienda nei confronti dei propri stakeholder, sia per la legittimazione che da una trasparente e attendibile comunicazione può derivare. Il volume offre una illustrazione dei principali temi in ambito di sostenibilità e responsabilità sociale, con particolare riferimento agli aspetti di governance e di comunicazione, considerando anche le recenti forme di Società Benefit e B-Corp e i processi di assurance. Esso è frutto della riflessione e dell’esperienza di un gruppo di docenti e ricercatori che si occupano di sostenibilità, etica e responsabilità sociale di impresa; ogni contributo nasce dall’elaborazione personale dei diversi Autori, sia pure collocandosi in un comune e condiviso quadro di riferimento.