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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... create and connect the different narratives within the firm and within society. The interconnections are missing.” What came to my mind was JeanFrançois Lyotard's metaphor of postmodernity: the archipelago of unconnected islands of ...
... create and connect the different narratives within the firm and within society. The interconnections are missing.” What came to my mind was JeanFrançois Lyotard's metaphor of postmodernity: the archipelago of unconnected islands of ...
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... create positive social change in the corporate world is not necessarily a new phenomenon, although current social, political, economic, and ideological conditions inflect it in specific ways today. Questions regarding the nature, scope ...
... create positive social change in the corporate world is not necessarily a new phenomenon, although current social, political, economic, and ideological conditions inflect it in specific ways today. Questions regarding the nature, scope ...
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... created social goods whose impact must be understood within the whole social system. Davis's argument assumed a somewhat ... create greater disclosure and transparency of corporate actions. During the 1970s, the debates regarding the ...
... created social goods whose impact must be understood within the whole social system. Davis's argument assumed a somewhat ... create greater disclosure and transparency of corporate actions. During the 1970s, the debates regarding the ...
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... create a fraudinducing system, which in turn provided organizational actors with ready rationalizations/legitimations of practices that 'pressed the envelope' or worse” (p. 16). Regardless of the reasons, however, the current historical ...
... create a fraudinducing system, which in turn provided organizational actors with ready rationalizations/legitimations of practices that 'pressed the envelope' or worse” (p. 16). Regardless of the reasons, however, the current historical ...
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... create an “identity” for themselves (Cheney & Christensen, 2001), largely constructed, as mentioned above, by the actions they take and the words they say (see also McMillan & Hyde, 2000). Although this corporate voice is a composite of ...
... create an “identity” for themselves (Cheney & Christensen, 2001), largely constructed, as mentioned above, by the actions they take and the words they say (see also McMillan & Hyde, 2000). Although this corporate voice is a composite of ...
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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