Return on Investment in Corporate Responsibility: Measuring the Social, Economic, and Environmental Value of Sustainable Business

by Cesar Saenz

Overview

In today’s climate, companies must be economically successful and at the same time take social responsibility. Author Cesar Sandro Saenz Acosta introduces a new SROIM (Social Return on Investment Management) model, to design and measure the social value created by companies. SROIM is a framework for tracking, understanding, measuring, and reporting the social, economic and environmental value created by a project, a program, or a business. This value creation can be done: 

• Before the project is initiated 
• During design and development, to plan for maximum value. 
• During implementation, so that maximum value can be attained. 
• During post-analysis, to assess the delivered value against the anticipated value.  

Acosta presents a methodological approach that can be replicated throughout an organization, to demonstrate a company’s creation of value through the social return of the investment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787562523
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	04/23/2018
Series:	Emerald Points
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cesar Sandro Saenz Acosta: Doctor in Business Administration, with specialization in Social Responsibility from ESADE Spain. Master in Business Administration from ESAN with exchange at Rotterdam Universityin the Netherlands. Engineer from the National University of Engineering. He is the Author of the SROIM methodology, Management of Social Return on Investment, with successful results from its application to public and private sector companies. Professor hired by ESAN Universityin Social Responsibility courses and SROIM. He is currently the Manager of SIMG Center, applying this new methodology in companies in the hydrocarbon, mining and industrial sectors.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction  
Chapter 2. Understanding the Philosophy of the SROIM 
Chapter 3. The SROIM Model 
Chapter 4. The SROIM Model in Detail 
Chapter 5. Case Studies 
Chapter 6. Integrating the Social Programs
References 
Annexes

Editorial Reviews

Sáenz introduces the Social Return on Investment Management model as a tool to measure corporate social responsibility projects in a simple and systematic manner, to identify the real impact of the projects, and to measure the social return on investment in these projects. He uses the stages of a marriage—from falling in love to grandparenting—to explain the workings of the model, identifies its objectives as visualizing impact and calculating the model, presents case studies of several companies and industries, and explains how to integrate the social programs.

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Sáenz introduces the Social Return on Investment Management model as a tool to measure corporate social responsibility projects in a simple and systematic manner, to identify the real impact of the projects, and to measure the social return on investment in these projects. He uses the stages of a marriage—from falling in love to grandparenting—to explain the workings of the model, identifies its objectives as visualizing impact and calculating the model, presents case studies of several companies and industries, and explains how to integrate the social programs.

Annotation ©2018