Social Bite

Capitalism is in crisis. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change tells us that we have little more than a decade to drastically cut our carbon emissions. Our society is increasingly divided and tensions are rising more often to the surface. Our younger generation is the first to believe that they won't have lives as good as their parents. People are fed up and they want change. If they don't get that change, who knows what will happen next?

'Our economic model will change significantly enough for social enterprises like Social Bite to be seen as the natural way of doing business and key to sustainability.' Critically evaluate this statement

Sources

Social Bite Impact Report 2018/19

Social Bite Website

https://social-bite.co.uk/

Videos

Food for thought | Josh Littlejohn | TEDxGlasgow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZgChfLJD8Q

North to South - Alice Thompson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-2L6KSRQtw

The Social Bite Cause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pmHbme_pA

Books

o Core text

Laszlo C., and (Zhexembayeva, N.), Embedding Sustainability, Greenleaf Publishing, 2011

o Additional text

Laszlo C., Sustainable Value, Greenleaf Publishing, 2008

Laszlo C., The Sustainable Company, Island Press, 2003

Cannon, T. (2012). Corporate Responsibility: Governance and Ethics in a sustainable environment. Pearson, Harlow.

Prahalad C. K., The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Wharton, 2006

London T., and Hart, S.L., Next Generation...for the Base of the Pyramid, FT Press, 2011

Background Reading :

o Korten, D. (2001). When Corporations Rule the World. {Berrett-Koehler Publishers}.

o Carson, R. (2000). Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics). Penguin Books.

o Hawken, P. (2010). The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials)

o Mackey, J. (2013). Conscious capitalism: liberating the heroic spirit of business. BostonMass.: Harvard Business Review Press.

o Morrison J., International Business, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, ch.13.

o Fisher C. and Lovell A., Business Ethics and Values, 3rd. ed., FT Prentice Hall, 2009, ch. 9.

o Crane A. and Matten D., Business Ethics, 3nd. ed., OUP, 2010,

o chs. 1-3.

o Hartman L. and DeJardins, J., Business Ethics, McGraw Hill, 2007, ch. 9.

o Daly, H.E., Beyond Growth, Beacon Press, 1996, Parts I and II.

o Lovins, A.B. and L.H., and Hawken, P., 'A Road Map for Natural Capitalism', Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1999.

o Lovins L.H., Climate Capitalism, Hill and Wang, 2011

o Porter M., and Kramer M., Creating Shared Value, HBR, Jan. 2011

Journal Articles

They are available on ABI/Inform; Emerald

NB: I send you the link to where you are support to get the insight. Most of the businesses nowadays had to invest in CSR and environmental sustainability for survival. According to Michael Porter was of the idea of Capitalism but Laszlo brought the issue of socialism to business approach.

-The list of books are to help you get the background of where the context of CAPITALISM started and other models which are brought forward such as Laszlo's need for social responsibility and sustainability!!

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