Format:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415781718
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9781136256493
Content:
This volume sets the agenda for a developing field of thought from a variety of perspectives from academia, policy, business and the professions. Articulating current thinking, each subject is represented by a scholarly presentation, together with responses from other researchers and practitioners in the field. The book explores and critiques corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals and national, organizational and managerial strategies, whilst reviewing the importance, sustainability and long term value of CSR practice to corporations and civil society
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: corporate social responsibility - a research agenda -- PART I Defining CSR -- Introduction -- 2 Deciphering the domain of corporate social responsibility -- 3 Economic development, climate change and the limitations of corporate social responsibility -- 4 CSR and collaboration -- PART II Taxation and social justice -- Introduction -- 5 Smoke and mirrors: corporate social responsibility and tax avoidance -- 6 Is corporation taxation practice a CSR issue? The Duke of Westminster's guide to tax "avoidance" -- 7 Corporate tax avoidance: an ethical evaluation -- 8 Shackled states: finance capital and the global evolution of public private partnerships -- PART III The environment and sustainability -- Introduction -- 9 Accountability, sustainability and the world's largest corporations: of CSR, chimeras, oxymorons and tautologies -- 10 Measuring sustainable development performance: possibilities and issues -- 11 Using science in business sustainability teaching and research -- PART IV Human rights and CSR -- Introduction -- 12 Human rights within an ethic of accountability -- 13 Business and human rights: towards global standards -- PART V Corporate philanthropy and CSR -- Introduction -- 14 Contested perspectives on corporate philanthropy -- 15 Corporate philanthropy at a time of (economic) crisis: the Irish experience -- 16 Nonprofit-business partnerships as agents for change: cross sector social interactions - a contextualist research agenda -- PART VI CSR, sustainability, governance and civil society - where next? -- Introduction -- 17 Capitalism in crisis: lessons from the voluntary sector
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18 Enhancing impact of CSR on economic development and livelihoods in developing countries - opportunity for policy makers and global businesses -- 19 Reflections on the future of CSR and accounting for sustainability -- 20 In conflicting paradigms of corporate social responsibility, whither social justice? -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Haynes, Kathryn Corporate Social Responsibility Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415781718
Language:
English
Keywords:
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