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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... chapters examine closely the basic assumptions underlying the philosophy of socially responsible business. Others present cases from various regions of the world. Still other chapters speak to the practical challenges and possibilities ...
... chapters examine closely the basic assumptions underlying the philosophy of socially responsible business. Others present cases from various regions of the world. Still other chapters speak to the practical challenges and possibilities ...
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... chapter, the institution that stepped into that vacuum of social responsibility was the modern business organization. It was an uneasy fit from the start, like a rambunctious youngster in uncomfortable, dress-up clothes. Business, which ...
... chapter, the institution that stepped into that vacuum of social responsibility was the modern business organization. It was an uneasy fit from the start, like a rambunctious youngster in uncomfortable, dress-up clothes. Business, which ...
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... chapter is that Enron's arguments of “stakeholder responsibility” were not aberrational (see Deakin & Konzelmann, 2003); they are, in fact, the stock and trade of any good organizational rhetor, and one would be hard-pressed to find an ...
... chapter is that Enron's arguments of “stakeholder responsibility” were not aberrational (see Deakin & Konzelmann, 2003); they are, in fact, the stock and trade of any good organizational rhetor, and one would be hard-pressed to find an ...
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... chapter are simple. Why corporate social responsibility? Because individuals have largely abandoned, at least seriously neglected, the role of caring for one another, and corporations have assumed it. Why now? Because we have recently ...
... chapter are simple. Why corporate social responsibility? Because individuals have largely abandoned, at least seriously neglected, the role of caring for one another, and corporations have assumed it. Why now? Because we have recently ...
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... chapter, a new generation of CSR has begun to recognize the futility of compartmentalizing ethics from profitability, as well as local from global (or global from local) business practices and requirements. New discourses reveal the ...
... chapter, a new generation of CSR has begun to recognize the futility of compartmentalizing ethics from profitability, as well as local from global (or global from local) business practices and requirements. New discourses reveal the ...
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 |
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