David Crowther is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at several universities including Bedfordshire university, UK, who previously worked in government and industry for twenty years, a career culminating in his role as divisional managing director of a multinational. In 2002 he established the Social Responsibility Research Network, an international body which now has several thousand members. His current research focuses on sustainability and governance in the modern environment.

Shahla Seifi is an engineer by training and worked at a senior level preparing standards for the national institute of Iran before moving to the UK. She now researches, writes, organises SRRNet activities (SRRNet.org) and runs her own consultancy.

While global challenges such as a future pandemics and global warming seem insurmountable, innovation and cumulative small changes can help towards managing such disruptive events. Innovation can encompass a new way of doing things, new products and services, and new solutions; in organizations where innovation can flourish, progress and resilience can be achieved.
This edited collection draws together a number of chapters, organized into two parts - developing social responsibility and developing sustainability - both of which are interlinked and interdependent. Topics presented range from: mandatory CSR in the banking industry to the professional integration of displaced persons to knowledge for and about sustainability, and many more. The diversity of the chapters gift readers an interdisciplinary examination of innovation, social responsibility and sustainability.
Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility offers the latest research on topical issues by international experts and has practical relevance to business managers.