The Debate over Corporate Social ResponsibilitySteven K. May, George Cheney, Juliet Roper Should business strive to be socially responsible, and if so, how? The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility updates and broadens the discussion of these questions by bringing together in one volume a variety of practical and theoretical perspectives on corporate social responsibility. It is perhaps the single most comprehensive volume available on the question of just how "social" business ought to be. The volume includes contributions from the fields of communication, business, law, sociology, political science, economics, accounting, and environmental studies. Moreover, it draws from experiences and examples from around the world, including but not limited to recent corporate scandals and controversies in the U.S. and Europe. A number of the chapters examine closely the basic assumptions underlying the philosophy of socially responsible business. Other chapters speak to the practical challenges and possibilities for corporate social responsiblilty in the twenty-first century. One of the most distinctive features of the book is its coverage of the very ways that the issue of corporate social responsibility has been defined, shaped, and discussed in the past four decades. That is, the editors and many of the authors are attuned to the persuasive strategies and formulations used to talk about socially responsible business, and demonstrate why the talk matters. For example, the book offers a careful analysis of how certain values have become associated with the business enterprise and how particular economic and political positions have been established by and for business. This book will be of great interest to scholars, business leaders, graduate students, and others interested in the contours of the debate over what role large-scale corporate commerce should take in the future of the industrialized world. |
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... company or to purchase its product; it is quite another when the company assumes the moral authority to oversee the ... company's balance sheet has no way to recognize costs that are not its own, no reason or method to calculate the ...
... company or to purchase its product; it is quite another when the company assumes the moral authority to oversee the ... company's balance sheet has no way to recognize costs that are not its own, no reason or method to calculate the ...
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... company's growth for the past decade ... and the list goes on. In short, the economic system that Protestant ... Company, expressed the sentiment of many: “I have not bought a single stock in 2002 and I don't plan to in 2003 because I ...
... company's growth for the past decade ... and the list goes on. In short, the economic system that Protestant ... Company, expressed the sentiment of many: “I have not bought a single stock in 2002 and I don't plan to in 2003 because I ...
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... company when it is down, I would confess that Enron is certainly a selection of convenience, given the extensive amount of attention that the company has received both in the popular and academic press. It is also the case, however ...
... company when it is down, I would confess that Enron is certainly a selection of convenience, given the extensive amount of attention that the company has received both in the popular and academic press. It is also the case, however ...
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... company's public endorsement of the RICE code—respect, integrity, communication, and excellence—these values were “neither modeled by leaders nor integrated into operations, [rather] Enron was obsessed . . . with values relating to ...
... company's public endorsement of the RICE code—respect, integrity, communication, and excellence—these values were “neither modeled by leaders nor integrated into operations, [rather] Enron was obsessed . . . with values relating to ...
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... company's production or even save its life; and the last resort of whistleblowing (Jensen, 1987), when employees get ... company motto become “the coolest company on Earth,” to which Chairman Lay suggested wrapping its headquarters in a ...
... company's production or even save its life; and the last resort of whistleblowing (Jensen, 1987), when employees get ... company motto become “the coolest company on Earth,” to which Chairman Lay suggested wrapping its headquarters in a ...
Contents
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II Cases and Contexts | 57 |
III Legal Perspectives | 153 |
IV Economic Perspectives | 205 |
V Social Perspectives | 265 |
VI Environmental Perspectives | 319 |
The Contributions of Communication and Other Perspectives | 403 |
Index | 475 |
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The Debate Over Corporate Social Responsibility Steve Kent May,Steve May,George Cheney,Juliet Roper Limited preview - 2007 |
The Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility Steven K. May,George Cheney,Juliet Roper Limited preview - 2007 |
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