The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility by Andrew Crane - Abagail McWilliams - Dirk Matten - Jeremy Moon - Donald S. Siegel

CSR encompasses broad questions about the changing relationship between business, society, and government. This Handbook is an authoritative review of the academic research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues. Bringing together leading experts, it provides clear thinking and new perspectives on CSR and the debates around it. Top page

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Business schools, the media, the corporate sector, governments, and non-governmental organizations have all begun to pay more attention to issues of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in recent years. These issues encompass broad questions about the changing relationship between business, society and government, environmental issues, corporate governance, the social and ethical dimensions of management, globalization, stakeholder debates, shareholder and consumer activism, changing political systems and values, and the ways in which corporations can respond to new social imperatives. This Oxford Handbook is an authoritative review of the academic research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues. Bringing together leading experts in the area, it provides clear thinking and new perspectives on CSR and the debates around it. The Handbook is divided into seven key sections: * Introduction, * Perspectives on CSR, * Critiques of CSR, * Actors and Drivers, * Managing CSR, * CSR in Global Context, * Future Perspectives and Conclusions. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Oxford University Press

City: Oxford

Pages: 608

More info: height 253 mm width 180 mm weight 1210 gr thickness 38 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 658.408 Library of Congress Subject: Social responsibility of business

Departments: The environment;

Record updated at: 07 June, 2013 time: 00:25

Summary The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility SECTION I: INTRODUCTION; 1. The CSR Agenda; SECTION II: PERSPECTIVES ON CSR; 2. A History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Concepts and Practices; 3. Corporate Social Responsibility Theories; 4. The Business Case for CSR; 5. Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance: A Research Synthesis; SECTION III: CRITIQUES OF CSR; 6. Principals and Agents: Further Thoughts on the Friedmanite Critique of CSR; 7. Re-Thinking Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of the Firm: On the Denial of Politics; 8. Critical Theory and CSR: Can/Should We Get Beyond Cynical Reasoning?; 9. Much Ado About Nothing: A Conceptual Critique of CSR; SECTION IV: ACTORS AND DRIVERS; 10. Top Managers as Drivers for CSR; 11. Socially Responsible Investment and Shareholder Activism; 12. Consumers as Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility; 13. CSR, Government, and Civil Society; SECTION V: MANAGING CSR; 14. Corporate Governance and CSR; 15. Stakeholder Theory: Managing CSR in a Multiple Actor Context; 16. Responsibility in the Supply Chain; 17. CSR: The Reporting and Assurance Dimension; SECTION VI: CSR IN GLOBAL CONTEXT; 18. Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility; 19. CSR and Theories of Global Governance: Strategic Contestation in Global Issue Arenas; 20. Corporate Social Responsibility in a Comparative Perspective; 21. CSR in Developing Countries; SECTION VII: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES AND CONCLUSIONS; 22. Educating for Responsible Management; 23. Corporate Social Responsibility:Deep Roots, Flourishing Growth, Promising Future; 24. Senior Management Preferences and Corporate Social Responsibility; 25. The Transatlantic Paradox: How Outdated Concepts Confuse the American/European Debate about Corporate Governance; 26. Spirituality as a firm basis for CSR; 27. Future Perspectives of CSR: Where are we coming from? Where are we heading?; 28. Conclusion Top page

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