Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility.
Title:
Debate over Corporate Social Responsibility.
Author:
May, Steven K.
ISBN:
9780198039761
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (513 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Overview -- I. Introduction -- 1. Why Corporate Social Responsibility: Why Now? How? -- 2. A New Generation of Global Corporate Social Responsibility -- 3. Progressing from Corporate Social Responsibility to Brand Integrity -- II. Cases and Contexts -- 4. Facing Corporate Power -- 5. Corporate Citizenship: The Dark-Side Paradoxes of Success -- 6. Corporate Social Responsibility in Scandinavia: A Turn Toward the Business Case? -- 7. Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia: A Confucian Context -- 8. Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Relations: Perceptions and Practices in Singapore -- 9. Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico: An Approximation from the Point of View of Communication -- III. Legal Perspectives -- 10. Legal Versus Ethical Arguments: Contexts for Corporate Social Responsibility -- 11. Corporate Deception and Fraud: The Case for an Ethical Apologia -- 12. Regulation: Government, Business, and the Self in the United States -- 13. Can Corporate Personhood Be Socially Responsible? -- IV. Economic Perspectives -- 14. How to Read Milton Friedman: Corporate Social Responsibility and Today's Capitalisms -- 15. Corporate Social Responsibility as Oxymoron: Universalization and Exploitation at Boeing -- 16. Toward an Accounting for Sustainability: A New Zealand View -- 17. Consumer Activism and Corporate Social Responsibility: How Strong a Connection? -- V. Social Perspectives -- 18. Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Communication -- 19. Corporate and Institutional Responses to the Challenge of HIV/AIDS: The Case of South Africa -- 20. Business, Society, and Impacts on Indigenous Peoples -- 21. Activism, Risk, and Communicational Politics: Nike and the Sweatshop Problem -- VI. Environmental Perspectives -- 22. Corporate Environmentalism.
23. Greening of Corporations? Eco-talk and the Emerging Social Imaginary of Sustainable Development -- 24. Discourses of Sustainability in Today's Public Sphere -- 25. Green Marketing and Advertising -- 26. Sustainable Development Discourse and the Global Economy: Promoting Responsibility, Containing Change -- 27. The Behavior of Corporate Species in Ecosystems and Their Roles in Environmental Change -- VII. Commentary on Corporate Social Responsibility: The Contributions of Communication and Other Perspectives -- 28. Is Sustainability Sustainable? Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Business, and Management Fashion -- 29. Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Policy Making -- 30. The Case of the Subaltern Public: A Postcolonial Investigation of Corporate Social Responsibility's (O)Missions -- 31. The Discourse of Corporate Social Responsibility: Postmodern Remarks -- 32. Corporate Social Responsibility/Corporate Moral Responsibility: Is There a Difference and the Difference It Makes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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