Corporate social responsibility in a globalizing world

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Series: Business and public policyPublication details: Cambridge University Press 2016 LondonDescription: xxiii, 487 pISBN:

9781107491168

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658.408 C6

Summary: Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? This volume examines these questions by drawing on historical documents, interviews, qualitative case comparison, fieldwork, multiple regression, time-series analysis and multidimensional scaling, among others. Informed by neoinstitutionalism and political economy approaches, the authors examine how global and local dimensions of contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) intersect with each other. Their rigorous empirical analyses produce insights into the historical roots of suspicions concerning cross-societal economic actors, why and how global CSR frameworks evolved into current forms, how conceptions of CSR vary across societies, what motivates corporations to participate in CSR frameworks, what impacts such participation might have on corporate reputation and actual practices, whether CSR activities shield corporations from targeting by boycott campaigns or invite more criticism, and what alternative responses corporations might have to buying into CSR principles. Proposes a global approach to understanding the rise and spread of corporate social responsibility (CSR), explaining the origin of CSR and the reasons for its growing popularity across the globe Demonstrates the impact of global CSR frameworks on corporate behaviour Presents empirical analyses with findings that are useful for both scholars and practitioners http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/corporate-social-responsibility-globalizing-world#DYT6r8LYsAt6B5TV.99

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Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? This volume examines these questions by drawing on historical documents, interviews, qualitative case comparison, fieldwork, multiple regression, time-series analysis and multidimensional scaling, among others. Informed by neoinstitutionalism and political economy approaches, the authors examine how global and local dimensions of contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) intersect with each other. Their rigorous empirical analyses produce insights into the historical roots of suspicions concerning cross-societal economic actors, why and how global CSR frameworks evolved into current forms, how conceptions of CSR vary across societies, what motivates corporations to participate in CSR frameworks, what impacts such participation might have on corporate reputation and actual practices, whether CSR activities shield corporations from targeting by boycott campaigns or invite more criticism, and what alternative responses corporations might have to buying into CSR principles.

Proposes a global approach to understanding the rise and spread of corporate social responsibility (CSR), explaining the origin of CSR and the reasons for its growing popularity across the globe
Demonstrates the impact of global CSR frameworks on corporate behaviour
Presents empirical analyses with findings that are useful for both scholars and practitioners

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/sociology/political-sociology/corporate-social-responsibility-globalizing-world#DYT6r8LYsAt6B5TV.99

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