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The debate over corporate social responsibility

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 d
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, ©2007
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Introduction. Why corporate social responsibility: why now? how? / Jill J. McMillan ; A new generation of global corporate social responsibility / Michael Stohl, Cynthia Stohl, Nikki C. Townsley ; Progressing from corporate social responsibility to brand integrity / Malcolm McIntosh
Cases and contexts. Facing corporate power / Jem Bendell, Mark Bendell ; Corporate citizenship: the dark-side paradoxes of success / Sandra Waddock ; Corporate social responsibility in Scandinavia: a turn towards the business case? / Mette Morsing, Atle Middtun, Karl Palmås ; Corporate social responsibility in Asia: a Confucian context / Glen Whelan ; Corporate social responsibility and public relations: perceptions and practices in Singapore / Krishnamurthy Sriramesh [and others] ; Corporate social responsibility in Mexico: an approximation from the point of view of communication / Mariela Pérez Chavarría
Legal perspectives. Legal versus ethical arguments: contexts for corporate social responsibility / Matthew W. Seeger, Steven J. Hipfel ; Corporate deception and fraud: the case for an ethical apologia / Keith Michael Hearit ; Regulation: government, business, and the self in the United States / John Llewellyn ; Can corporate personhood be socially responsible? / Dean Ritz
Economic perspectives. How to read Milton Friedman: corporate social responsibility and today's capitalisms / James Arnt Aune ; Corporate social responsibility as oxymoron: universalization and exploitation at Boeing / Dana L. Cloud ; Toward an accounting for sustainability: a New Zealand view / Stewart Lawrence ; Consumer activism and corporate social responsibility: how strong a connection? / Brenden E. Kendall, Rebecca Gill, George Cheney
Social perspectives. Corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and communication / Stanley Deetz ; Corporate and institutional responses to the challenge of HIV/AIDS: the case of South Africa / Grant Samkin, Stewart Lawrence ; Business, society, and impacts on indigenous peoples / Marcus Breen ; Activism, risk, and communicational politics: Nike and the sweatshop problem / Graham Knight
Environmental perspectives. Corporate environmentalism / Connie Bullis, Fumiko Ie ; Greening of corporations? Eco-talk and the emerging social imaginary of sustainable development / Sharon M. Livesey, Julie Graham. Discourses of sustainability in today's public sphere / Tarla Rai Peterson, Todd Norton ; Green marketing and advertising / Worawan Yim Ongkrutraksa ; Sustainable development discourse and the global economy: promoting responsibility, containing change / Shiv Ganesh ; The behavior of corporate species in ecosystems and their roles in environmental change / Douglas Crawford-Brown
Commentary on corporate social responsibility: the contributions of communication and other perspectives. Is sustainability sustainable? Corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, and management fashion / Theodore E. Zorn, Eva Collins ; Corporate social responsibility and public policy making / Charles Conrad, JéAnna Abbott ; The case of the Subaltern public: a postcolonial investigation of corporate social responsibility's (o)missions / Debashish Munshi, Priya Kurian ; The discourse of corporate social responsibility: postmodern remarks / Lars Thøger Christensen
Corporate social responsibility/corporate moral responsibility: is there a difference and the difference it makes / Patricia H. Werhane
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