UID:
almahu_9949383643002882
Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429326509
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0429326505
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9781000711950
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1000711951
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1000711803
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9781000712100
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1000712109
,
9781000711806
Serie:
Business for society
Inhalt:
"This book is about promoting corporate responsibility in its original meaning: businesses should have a positive impact on society, and society should not only be a lever of profit making. When we treat social responsibility as an external function of the core business, we are exposed to the worst. Business for Society seeks to redress the balance and promotes the original idea of corporate responsibility. This first book in the series of the same name sets the scene and presents the key theories across the various management disciplines to answer the following questions: "How, why and under what conditions can business act for society?". The book narrows and discusses examples of businesses that are making impressive strides in delivering positive impacts for society as well as their bottom line, but as the concept of corporate responsibility has become more mainstream in recent years, many organisations have adopted the term and reduced it to a marketing message. Areas covered include a historical perspective on the hijacking of business responsibility towards society, management knowledge and value, the Business for Society project against hijacking, accounting for Society, finance for Society and governance for Society and Democracy. The book will be of interest for scholars and students in the fields of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and governance"--
Anmerkung:
1 A historical perspective on the hijacking of business responsibility towards society; 1.1 What does hijacking consist of in managerial studies?; The premises: recuperation of the critique of capitalism; Our position: critique of management is hijacked by dominant theories; 1.2 How agency theory hijacked managerialism; Evolution towards the managerial theory of the firm; A separation of ownership and control does not mean disregarding corporate social responsibility; 1.3 How does hijacking operate? The strengths of the dominant ideology and the weaknesses of representations of critical opposition in the field of science and society; Some critical theories in the management knowledge field show significant weaknesses, among them authors' desires to produce something 'compatible' with extant management theories; Critical theories are progressively distorted by their own supporters to meet the objectives of mainstream ones, no matter what fundamental contradictions such a process may engender; The constraints of management practice which could be invoked by critical theories about responsibility are neutralized, and instead turned into new assets for use at management's discretion; In the end, a few fundamental criteria torn from the critical theory are absorbed into the mainstream, completing the hijacking process and making it possible in theory as well as in practice; 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 Management knowledge and value; 2.1 Management is at risk from pretence of knowledge; The influence of Friedman's position on business- andsociety studies; The bias of the agency model as mainstream; Lessons to be learned ten years down the line from the explosion of the financial crisis; 2.2 The structuration of management knowledge is based on categories and fuzzy integrative theories: an opportunity for hijacking; Philosophical categories of knowledge are toxic to ethical management; Integrative management theories eliminate the very idea of conflict; 2.3 The ecology and the economy of management knowledge as a support for hijacking; The ecology of management knowledge: digesting criticism to make it compatible with current practices; The economy of management knowledge: metrics and rankings to maintain an illusion of normal science; 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 The business for society project against hijacking: a genetic analysis and sketch of a genetic draft; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Repairing the institutional machine; Competitive formatting of scientific content sterilizes management thought; The financialization of science promotes 'double blind' evaluation; Transferring criteria of excellence from 'hard science' leads to the standardization of management science; De- financializing research to stem the conformism; 3.3 Repairing the intellectual machine 49 Some intellectual virus polarizes managerial concepts to 'society for business'; 3.4 Repairing management knowledge by making society the centre of our intellectual patterns; 3.5 Conclusion: when repairing means curing -- 4 Accounting for society; 4.1 Context: the great transformation of accounting, from accountability to financialization; Triggers and forms of the accounting revolution; Impacts of the accounting revolution: invasive reporting and the procyclicality of standards; A call for inventing or re- creating multiple accounting standards; 4.2 Conceiving an efficient and impactful social disclosure mechanism: a task for the multiple accounting perspective?; 4.3 Theoretical perspectives on CSD; The social legitimacy perspective; The perspective of asymmetric information; The institutional perspective; 4.4 Attempts to standardize CSD: the need for a common CSR 'grammar'; 4.5 Social reporting and social performance: what is the relationship?; 4.6 A synthesis: CSD as a multifunctional tool; 4.7 Conclusion -- 5 Finance for society; 5.1 Context: the 'global financializing' of society; The financialization of business 84 The dematerialization of value; Banks disintermediate their activities, as do states; 5.2 On the investor side: revisiting finance through ethical and socially responsible principles; Beyond maximization of economic utility: the ethical and socially responsible investor; The ethical and socially responsible investor is not a monolithic entity 93 The risks of mainstreaming ethical finance; 5.3 On the company side: revisiting the concept of value maximization 98 Societal care as a form of risk protection -- 6 Governance for society and democracy: on the necessity of new paradigms; 6.1 The company and the inter- regulation of the three spheres of Society-Politics-Business/the company and democracy; The influence path of Business → Politics → Society; The influence path of Business → Society → Politics 110 Studying and measuring the systemic influence of corporations on governance within state and society; 6.2 Alternative modes of 'corporate' governance: democracy within the firm; 6.3 Conclusion.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Gangi, Francesco. Business for society. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367345495
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429326509
