Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility

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. Andrew Crane et al. have compiled a series of essays which ambitiously is intended to span the contestable and controversial subject of Coporate Social Responsibility (CSR). They have drawn together leading lights in business theory along with important contributors from the fields of sociology, law, politics, philosophy and even one from peace and conflict studies whose remit covers corporate relations to society... As ambitious as the project was, the editors have achieved much of great worth with this book, which covers a great deal of a multifaceted subject. Adrian Gray, Political Studies Review Comprehensive and detailed..."Would you recommend it?" Yes. It is a high-level critical analysis suited to a master's level course. Isabelle Szmigin, THESSECTION 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