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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... human rights. Grant Samkin (D.Compt., Accounting Science, University of South Africa, 1997) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. His research publications have been in ...
... human rights. Grant Samkin (D.Compt., Accounting Science, University of South Africa, 1997) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. His research publications have been in ...
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... human rights advocates. Soh Ting Ting (B.A., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2005) is Category Executive for Unilever Singapore Pte Ltd. in Singapore. Nikki C. Townsley (Ph.D., Purdue University, 2002) is Assistant ...
... human rights advocates. Soh Ting Ting (B.A., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2005) is Category Executive for Unilever Singapore Pte Ltd. in Singapore. Nikki C. Townsley (Ph.D., Purdue University, 2002) is Assistant ...
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... Right. From the perspective of neoliberal economics, CSR is wrong-headed: a ... human needs. With the diversity of chapters in this volume, we have tried to ... rights of employees, and to convert what sometimes begin as the mere window ...
... Right. From the perspective of neoliberal economics, CSR is wrong-headed: a ... human needs. With the diversity of chapters in this volume, we have tried to ... rights of employees, and to convert what sometimes begin as the mere window ...
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... human beings take and the words they make: “Not only do organizations 'act' in ways that character-ize them, we also ... rights, or the community left with an empty factory, shattered lives, a ruined environment. (p. 39) This is not to ...
... human beings take and the words they make: “Not only do organizations 'act' in ways that character-ize them, we also ... rights, or the community left with an empty factory, shattered lives, a ruined environment. (p. 39) This is not to ...
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... human rights regime. Like the development of international human rights standards and norms, which, we suggest, are integral to corporate global social responsibility, there are several generations of CSR that continue to explore how to ...
... human rights regime. Like the development of international human rights standards and norms, which, we suggest, are integral to corporate global social responsibility, there are several generations of CSR that continue to explore how to ...
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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