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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... focused on external and internal communication of the firm's policies and commitments on CSR. It was often in the ... focus then switched to the substance of economic analysis of the so-called business case for CSR and sustainability ...
... focused on external and internal communication of the firm's policies and commitments on CSR. It was often in the ... focus then switched to the substance of economic analysis of the so-called business case for CSR and sustainability ...
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... focus on studying the debate over CSR, with a view to the following: 1. To apply historical analysis to the rise of CSR to understand how it takes its place (or not) within the history of ideas in political economy, politics, moral ...
... focus on studying the debate over CSR, with a view to the following: 1. To apply historical analysis to the rise of CSR to understand how it takes its place (or not) within the history of ideas in political economy, politics, moral ...
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... focus on issues of gender, race, and culture. She is the author of Engendering the Environment: Gender in the World Bank's Environmental Policies (2000) and co-editor of Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development ...
... focus on issues of gender, race, and culture. She is the author of Engendering the Environment: Gender in the World Bank's Environmental Policies (2000) and co-editor of Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development ...
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... focus shifted from corporate responsibility to corporate responsiveness, thus emphasizing what companies could do to better the world rather than what companies could do to ensure their own survival (Makower, 1994). This move was partly ...
... focus shifted from corporate responsibility to corporate responsiveness, thus emphasizing what companies could do to better the world rather than what companies could do to ensure their own survival (Makower, 1994). This move was partly ...
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... focus on social responsibility, according to Friedman, is a “fundamentally subversive doctrine” in a free society. By contrast, scholars such as Archie Carroll (1979) acknowledged the profit motive of corporations but also extended ...
... focus on social responsibility, according to Friedman, is a “fundamentally subversive doctrine” in a free society. By contrast, scholars such as Archie Carroll (1979) acknowledged the profit motive of corporations but also extended ...
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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