Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques

by R. Raman (Editor), R. Lipschutz (Editor)

Overview

Internationally renowned scholars investigate the discourses, practices and perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across a wide range of multicultural, multi-ethnic and cross country experiences. Case studies are included from Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230220775
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/24/2010
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

ALICE BRYER is a PhD student at Manchester University, UK ANDRIENETTA KRITZINGER is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa ANTHONY BEBBINGTON is Professor of Nature, Society and Development in the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, an ESRC Professorial Fellow, and Research Associate of the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Peru CAMELIA CRISAN is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations within the National School for Political Science and Administration in Bucharest, Romania D. AJIT is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), Prince George, British Columbia, Canada FABIANA LI is PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA FIONA MACPHAIL is Associate Professor and Chair of the Economics Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada KATHERINE TREBECK is Research Executive at The Wise Group LESLIE SKLAIR is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Associate Faculty in the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics; Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London, UK, and President of the Global Studies Association PAUL BOWLES is Professor of Economics at the University of Northern British Columbia, USA PRANAB KANTI BASU is a lecturer in the faculty of the department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati.. RAJESH VENUGOPAL is a Research Officer at the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the University of Oxford, UK RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA STEPHANIE BARRIENTOS lectures at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK

Table of Contents

Strange Bedfellows? Critiquing Corporate Social Responsibility; K.R.Raman Corporate Social Responsibility in the Era of Capitalist Globalization; L.Sklair Corporate Social Responsibility and the Problem of Human Rights: Who is Protecting Whom?; R.D.Lipschutz The Opportunities and Limits of Corporate Support for Voluntary Activity in Canada: Evidence from Voluntary Organizations; P.Bowles & F.MacPhail Indigenous/NGO Alliances Confronting Corporate/State Alliances: The Case of Jabiluka Uranium Prospect; K.Trebeck Romania ltd. - A Case Study of Irresponsible Conduct in Human Resources; C.Crisan Extractive Industries and Stunted States: Conflict, Responsibility and Institutional Change in the Andes; A.Bebbington From Corporate Accountability to Shared Responsibility: Dealing with Pollution in a Peruvian Smelter Town; F.Li Beyond Bureaucracies? The Struggle for Self-Determination and Social Responsibility in the Argentine Worker-Run Companies; A.Bryer Business for Peace, or Peace for Business? The Role of Corporate Peace Activism in the Rise and Fall of Sri Lanka's Peace Process; R.Venugopal Commercial Microfinance in India: Loan Angels or Loan Sharks; D.Ajit& K.R.Raman Corporate Social Responsibility, Local Livelihood and Human Rights: The Case of Coca Cola in India; K.R.Raman Land Acquisition: Impossibility of Corporate Social Responsibility; P.K.Basu Shifting Terrain of Ethical Trade: Corporate and Civil Society Engagement in South African Agriculture; S.Barrientos & A.Kritzinger Corporate Social Responsibility and the Problem of Human Rights: Who is Protecting Whom; R.D.Lipschutz Notes Bibliography Index