Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development?

Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development?

Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development?

Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development?

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Overview

This is the first of two volumes that examine the changing nature of state-business relations. This book assesses the potential and limits of CSR in developing countries, by focusing on aspects that are often ignored in the CSR literature: historical experience, theoretical perspectives, and institutional and political dimensions of change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230576445
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 11/12/2009
Series: International Political Economy Series
Edition description: 2010
Pages: 309
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Michael Blowfield, University of Oxford, UK Colin Crouch, Warwick Business School, UK Ruth Findlay-Brooks, University of Cambridge, UK Doris Fuchs, University of Münster, Germany Catia Gregoratti, Newcastle University, UK Paddy Ireland, University of Kent, UK Agni Kalfagianni, University of Stuttgart, Germany José Carlos Marques, McGill University, USA Ndangwa Noyoo, National Department of Social Development, South Africa Florence Palpacuer, University of Montpellier, France Renginee Pillay, University of Surrey, UK Ngai-Ling Sum, Lancaster University, UK Peter Utting, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) James Van Alstine, University of Leeds, UK Rob van Tulder, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Wayne Visser, Mannheim University, Germany Thurstan Wright, University of Cambridge, UK

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Preface Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Intellectual Crisis of CSR; P.Utting & J.C.Marques CSR and Changing Modes of Governance: Towards Corporate Noblesse Oblige?; C.Crouch Wal-Martization and CSR-ization in Developing Countries; N-L.Sum Corporate Social Responsibility in a Neoliberal Age; P.Ireland & R.G.Pillay Linking Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Policy in Zambia; N.Noyoo Business, Corporate Responsibility and Poverty Reduction; M.Blowfield Transnational Corporations and Poverty Reduction: Strategic and Regional Variations; R.van Tulder Cross-sector Partnership as an Approach to Inclusive Development; R.Findlay-Brooks, W.Visser & T.Wright Growing Sustainable Business in East Africa: The Potential and Limits of Partnerships for Development; C.Gregoratti Private Food Governance: Implications for Social Sustainability and Democratic Legitimacy; D.Fuchs & A.Kalfagianni Spaces of Contestation: The Governance of Industry's Environmental Performance in Durban, South Africa; J.Van Alstine Challenging Governance in Global Commodity Chains: The Case of Transnational Activist Campaigns for Better Work Conditions; F.Palpacuer Notes Bibliography Index
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