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Perspectives on corporate social responsibility / edited by Nina Boeger, Rachel Murray, Charlotte Villiers.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Corporations, globalisation, and the law.
- Corporations, globalisation, and the law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social responsibility of business.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of globalisation and its many challenges, focusing on different legal perspectives that arise. Highlighting the importance of law, legal systems and the role of lawyers to the debate on CSR, this book is suitable for students in commercial law, and international law.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Corporate social responsibility in law and policy; Chapter 3: Misappropriating citizenship: the limits of corporate social responsibility; Chapter 4: The United Nations, human rights and transnational corporations: challenging the international legal order; Chapter 5: Corporate law, corporate power and corporate social responsibility; Chapter 6: Varieties of capitalism and the learning firm: corporate governance and labour in the context of contemporary developments in European and German company law
- Chapter 7: Corporate social responsibility: do corporations have a responsibility to trade fairly? Can the Fairtrade movement deliver the duty?Chapter 8: Reflexive governance, meta-regulation and corporate social responsibility: the 'Heineken effect'; Chapter 9: Locating the 'environment' within corporate social responsibility: continuing problems of legal definition and representation; Chapter 10: Engaging individuals; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-80135-6
- 9786611801359
- 1-84844-379-X
- OCLC:
- 294759009
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