Emerging Economic Models for Sustainable Businesses

Jayati Talapatra teaches Business Sustainability to post-graduate students in leading Business Schools such as MDI Gurgaon and The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, India. She completed her Masters in Business Studies from one of the top institutes in India, XLRI Jamshedpur. She worked in the field of organisation development, leadership development and change management in leading Fortune 500 companies for 15 years, and presently teaches and consults on business sustainability. She runs an eco-tourism organization that promotes citizen action for a more sustainable world. She is an independent researcher and her area of research is the role of consumers in influencing corporate sustainability decisions. Nayan Mitra has over 20 years of diverse professional experience in academics, social & corporate sectors; Academic Council member & Science Board member in International Academic forums. She has edited books such as 'Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Cases and Development after the Legal Mandate' (2017); 'Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from India' (2019) & 'Corporate Social Responsibility in Rising Economies: Fundamentals, Approaches and Case Studies' with co-editor, Dr. Rene Schmidpeter and many scientific publications in the subject in peer reviewed international/ national journals/ books. Dr. Mitra was a recipient of the prestigious Author Award at the India CSR Leadership Summit three years in a row: 2017, 2018 and 2019; adjudged as one of the 25 most impactful CSR Leaders in India 2019 and many other international awards for her contribution to CSR and recognised as an Exceptional Woman of Excellence at the Women Economic Forum, 2019. René Schmidpeter is founder of the M3TRIX Institute for Sustainable Business Transformation in Cologne. He holds Professorships at various universities and research centers in Europe, Asia and Australia. He is series editor for Springer's CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance books, and section editor of the Encyclopaedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR), editor of the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility (DCSR) as well as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of CSR (Springer) and the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management (ESM). His research and teaching activities focus on the management of Corporate Social Responsibility, international perspectives on CSR, social innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship as well as the relationship between business and society.