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

by Sarah Kaplan

Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address stakeholder demands from every 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.

Genres: Business

251 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 3, 2019

Reviews

[Calum MacDonald]

Bit or a tough read but genuinely great ideas regarding corporate responsibility and how businesses should prioritize stakeholders. Could have just been a ted talk