Greenleaf Publishing

{{Short description|British publishing company}}

{{Primary sources|date=February 2016}}

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| parent = Routledge

| status = Imprint

| founded = {{start date and age|1992}}

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| country = United Kingdom

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| distribution = Worldwide

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| topics = business ethics, environmental policy, business strategy and sustainable development

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| owner = Taylor & Francis

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Greenleaf Publishing is a British publishing imprint specializing academic books that cover corporate responsibility, business ethics, environmental policy and management, future business strategy and practice, and sustainable development.{{Cite web |title=About Greenleaf |url=http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/default.asp?ContentID=57 |website=www.greenleaf-publishing.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915192611/http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/default.asp?ContentID=57 |archivedate=2015-09-15 |accessdate=2016-02-11}}

Greenleaf has a catalogue of over 300 titles and also publishes a range of academic journals and since 2017 has been an imprint of Routledge.

History

The company was founded in 1992 as an independent publisher, the company became part of GSE Research Limited, an online scholarly publisher specializing in governance, sustainability and the environment, in 2012.{{Cite web |title=GSE Research and Greenleaf Publishing announce strategic alliance to create the world's leading sustainability publisher|url=https://gseresearch.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/gse-research-and-greenleaf-publishing-announce-strategic-alliance/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215104124/http://gseresearch.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/gse-research-and-greenleaf-publishing-announce-strategic-alliance/ |archivedate=2012-12-15 |website=GSE Research blog |access-date=2016-02-11}}

In 2017, the company was sold to Taylor & Francis and became part of its Routledge imprint.{{cite web| title=Greenleaf Publishing and GSE Research, based at Salts Mills in Saltaire, moving to Oxford after joining Informa Group|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/business/15192968.Publishing_firm_signs_deal_with_new_global_partner/}}

The company has collaborated with various international organizations working in the fields of sustainability and social responsibility.{{Cite web |title=New online library in sustainability and corporate responsibility launched |url=http://greenleaf-publishing.com/default.asp?contentid=149 |website=www.greenleaf-publishing.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520230232/http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/default.asp?contentid=149 |archivedate=2013-05-20 |accessdate=2016-02-19}} These include the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)—an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact—along with the European Foundation for Management Development and others.{{Cite web |title=Publishers Greenleaf/GSE and BEP Announce Digital Library Collaboration |url=http://www.unprme.org/news/index.php?newsid=340 |website=www.unprme.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322074733/http://www.unprme.org/news/index.php?newsid=340 |archivedate=2015-03-22 |accessdate=2016-02-19}}{{Cite web |title=GSE/EFMD Global Focus Collection Now Available in the SOL Library |url=http://www.efmd.org/blog/view/303-gse-efmd-global-focus-collection-now-available-in-the-sol-library |website=www.efmd.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017105409/https://www.efmd.org/blog/view/303-gse-efmd-global-focus-collection-now-available-in-the-sol-library |archivedate=2015-10-17 |accessdate=2016-02-19}} Greenleaf is also a member of Business in the Community.

Authors published by Greenleaf include Stephen O. Andersen, Mark Moody-Stuart, Stephan Schmidheiny, Paul Shrivastava, and Wayne Visser.

Publications

Greenleaf has an existing catalogue of over 300 titles, including book series on stakeholder management, business education for sustainability, system innovation for sustainability, and responsible investment.

The company also publishes academic journals, including: The Journal of Corporate Citizenship; The Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship; The Journal of Sustainable Mobility; Business, Peace and Sustainable Development; Building Sustainable Legacies; and The Annual Review of Social Partnerships. In addition, Greenleaf offers online collections in the form of the Greenleaf Online Library (GOL) and the Sustainable Organization Library (SOL).{{Cite news |title=Publisher secures milestone global university contract |url = http://www.finance-yorkshire.com/news/news273.asp |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160218213451/http://www.finance-yorkshire.com/news/news273.asp |archivedate=2016-02-18 |website=www.finance-yorkshire.com |access-date=2016-02-11}}

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