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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... international organizations, including the International Labor Organization, the World Health Organization, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. His work on the future of corporate responsibility, Barricades and ...
... international organizations, including the International Labor Organization, the World Health Organization, and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. His work on the future of corporate responsibility, Barricades and ...
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... International Life Sciences Institute, and Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology. Stanley Deetz (Ph.D., Ohio University, 1973) is Professor of Communication and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Colorado ...
... International Life Sciences Institute, and Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology. Stanley Deetz (Ph.D., Ohio University, 1973) is Professor of Communication and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Colorado ...
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... International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Priya Kurian (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1995) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her research ...
... International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Priya Kurian (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1995) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Her research ...
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... international advertising and social advertising for corporate image (green advertising). Her works have appeared in BU Academic Review (Bangkok University), Regional Studies (International University of Kagoshima), and Association for ...
... international advertising and social advertising for corporate image (green advertising). Her works have appeared in BU Academic Review (Bangkok University), Regional Studies (International University of Kagoshima), and Association for ...
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... International Programs (from 1992) and Professor of Political Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he had taught since 1972. His research focuses on violence, terrorism, and human rights, and he is the author ...
... International Programs (from 1992) and Professor of Political Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he had taught since 1972. His research focuses on violence, terrorism, and human rights, and he is the author ...
Contents
A New Generation of Global Corporate Social Responsibility | |
Progressing from Corporate Social Responsibility to Brand | |
Facing Corporate Power | |
The DarkSide Paradoxes of Success | |
A Turn Toward | |
A Confucian Context | |
Perceptions | |
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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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