Corporate Social Responsibility? : Human Rights in the New Global Economy / Charlotte Walker-Said, John D. Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, John D., Editor.

Walker-Said, Charlotte, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and settings. Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from leading figures in human rights programs around the United States, they vigorously engage some of the major political questions of our age: what is CSR, and how might it render positive political change in the real world? The book examines the diverse approaches to CSR, with a particular focus on how those approaches are siloed within discrete disciplines such as business, law, the social sciences, and human rights. Bridging these disciplines and addressing and critiquing all the conceptual domains of CSR, the book also explores how CSR silos develop as a function of the competition between different interests. Ultimately, the contributors show that CSR actions across all arenas of power are interdependent, continually in dialogue, and mutually constituted. Organizing a diverse range of viewpoints, this book offers a much-needed synthesis of a crucial element of today's globalized world and asks how businesses can, through their actions, make it better for everyone.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter one. Introduction

Chapter two. Two Cheers for CSR

Chapter three. Assessing Corporate Social Responsibility in the Tobacco Industry

Chapter four. Transparency, Auditability, and the Contradictions of CSR

Chapter five. Virtuous Language in Industry and the Academy

Chapter six. An Emerging History of CSR

Chapter seven. The Impact of the War Crimes Tribunals on Corporate Liability for Atrocity Crimes under US Law

Chapter eight. Sanction and Socialize

Chapter nine. Law, Morality, and Rational Choice

Chapter ten. Multistakeholder Initiative Anatomy

Chapter eleven. The Virtue of Voluntarism

Chapter twelve. CSR and Corporate Engagement with Parties to Armed Confl

Chapter thirteen. Corporate and State Sustainability in Africa

Chapter fourteen. Tender Is the Mine

Chapter fifteen. Corporate Social Responsibility and Latecomer Industrialization in Nigeria

Final Thoughts and Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226244440

022624444X

OCLC:

917153456