Reframing corporate social responsibility : lessons from the global financial crisis / edited by William Sun, Jim Stewart, David Pollard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sun, William, 1962-

Stewart, Jim, 1952-

Pollard, David, 1946-

Series:

Critical studies on corporate responsibility, governance and sustainability ; v. 1.

Critical studies on corporate responsibility, governance and sustainability, 2043-9059 ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most of people have believed that corporate social responsibility (CSR) played a significant role in the 2008 global financial crisis. However, little research has been done to reflect on the underlying issues of CSR in connection to the financial crisis. This collection brings together leading scholarly thinking to understand why CSR failed to prevent the global financial crisis, how corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) contributed to the financial crisis, and how we may reframe CSR or improve CSR frameworks to help prevent or mitigate any future financial and economic crises. While the conventional CSR theories are identified as an implicit construction of alienated CSR, a new perspective of CSR, namely, an embedded CSR, is proposed in this volume. CSR involves a variety of issues and demands continuing and multidisciplinary explorations. As a pioneering research into embedded CSR, this volume concentrates on three key themes: A critical review of the role of CSR played in the financial crisis and its underlying theses; A unique understanding of the institutionalization of CSR in codified rules and the application of CSR into business and management; and An in-depth exploration of the future direction of CSR as post-crisis agenda.

Contents:

Reframing corporate social responsibility / William Sun, Jim Stewart, David Pollard

The nature of responsibility and the credit crunch / Simon Robinson

The role of corporate social responsibility in the financial crisis / Ralph Tench

Corporate social irresponsibility : the role of government and ideology / Brian Jones

Performance management and neo-liberal labour market governance : the case of the UK / Alex Nunn

Who is responsible for the financial crisis? Lessons from a separation thesis / William Sun, Lawrence Bellamy

Crisis, rescue, and corporate social responsibility under American corporate law / Robert J. Rhee

Institutionalisation of corporate social responsibility in the corporate governance code : the new trend of the Dutch model / Tineke Lambooy

When should companies voluntarily agree to stop doing things that are legal and profitable but 'socially useless' ; and would they ever? / Colin Fisher

The dark side of social capital : lessons from the Madoff case / Paul Manning

CSR 2.0 : from the age of greed to the age of responsibility / Wayne Visser

Dying of consumption? Voluntary simplicity as an antidote to hypermaterialism / Hershey H. Friedman, Linda Weiser Friedman

Corporate social responsibility in developing countries : polish perspective / Justyna Berniak-Wozny.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612964084

9781282964082

1282964089

9780857244567

0857244566

OCLC:

704270649