What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and ...gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Against the backdrop of an emerging Corporate Social Responsibility movement and changing state dynamics in Indonesia, she shows how people enact the mining corporation in multiple ways: as an ore producer, employer, patron, promoter of sustainable development, religious sponsor, auditable organization, foreign imperialist, and environmental threat. Rather than assuming that corporations are monolithic, profit-maximizing subjects, Welker turns to anthropological theories of personhood to develop an analytic model of the corporation as an unstable collective subject with multiple authors, boundaries, and interests. Enacting the Corporation demonstrates that corporations are constituted through continuous struggles over relations with—and responsibilities to—local communities, workers, activists, governments, contractors, and shareholders.
Business schools, the media, the corporate sector, governments, and non-governmental organizations have all begun to pay more attention to issues of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in recent ...years. These issues encompass broad questions about the changing relationship between business, society and government, environmental issues, corporate governance, the social and ethical dimensions of management, globalization, stakeholder debates, shareholder and consumer activism, changing political systems and values, and the ways in which corporations can respond to new social imperatives. This Oxford Handbook is an authoritative review of the academic research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues. Bringing together leading experts in the area, it provides clear thinking and new perspectives on CSR and the debates around it. The Handbook is divided into seven key sections: * Introduction, * Perspectives on CSR, * Critiques of CSR, * Actors and Drivers, * Managing CSR, * CSR in Global Context, * Future Perspectives and Conclusions. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/oso/public/content/oho_business/9780199211593/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Ruth Aguilera, Associate Professor, College of Business and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jay B. Barney, Professor of Management and Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy, Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Jill A. Brown, Assistant Professor of Management, Lehigh University's College of Business and Economics, Ann K. Buchholtz, Associate Professor, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Archie B. Carroll, Director of the Nonprofit Management & Community Service Program and Professor Emeritus, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Barry A. Colbert, Assistant Professor of Policy, School of Business and Economics at Wilfred Laurier University, Andrew Crane, George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics, Schulich School of Business, York University Stanley Deetz, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Colorado, Thomas Donaldson, Mark O. Winkelman Professor and Director of the Wharton PhD Program in Ethics and Law, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Thomas W. Dunfee, Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, William C. Frederick, Professor Emeritus, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Gerard Hanlon, Professor of Organizational Sociology, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, Pursey Heugens, Associate Professor of Business-Society Management, RSM Erasmus University, Bryan W. Husted, Professor of Management, EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), and Alumni Association Chair of Business Ethics, Instituto de Empresa (Spain), Rami Kaplan, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University. Timothy Kuhn Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Lloyd Kurtz, senior portfolio manager, Nelson Capital Management, Palo Alto, California, Elizabeth C. Kurucz, Associate Director, Academic, E. K. Haub Program in Business and Sustainability, Schulich School of Business, York University, David L. Levy, Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Alison Mackey, Assistant Professor of Management, Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University, Tyson Mackey, Assistant Professor of Management, Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University, Abagail McWilliams, Professor, College of Business, University of Illinois, Chicago, Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility, Schulich School of Business, York University, Domenec Mele, Professor of Business Ethics and Chair of Economics and Ethics, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain, Andrew Millington, Director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society, University of Bath Jeremy Moon, Professor and Director, the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School, Brendan O'Dwyer, College Lecturer, University College Dublin, Marc Orlitzky, Associate Professor, University of Redlands, David L. Owen, Professor of Social and Environmental Accounting, International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School Guido Palazzo, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management and Economics, University of Lausanne, Peter Pruzan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Politics, Management & Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School and Visiting Professor, Sri Sathya Sai University, India, Jose Salazar, Professor of Economics, ITESM, Andreas Georg Scherer, Director, Institute of Organization and Administrative Science (IOU), University of Zurich, Kareem M. Shabana, Assistant Professor of Management, Indiana University, Kokomo, Donald S. Siegel, Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of California, Riverside, N. Craig Smith, Senior Fellow in Marketing and Ethics, London Business School, Ulrich Steger, Alcan Chair of Environmental Management, IMD Diane L. Swanson, von Waaden Professor, Kansas State University, J. (Hans) van Oosterhout, Professor of Corporate Governance and Responsibility, RSM Erasmus University, Wayne Visser, Research Director, University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, David Vogel, Solomon Lee Professor of Business Ethics and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, David Wheeler, Dean of Management, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, Cynthia A. Williams, Visiting Professor and Osler Chair in Business Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Duane Windsor, Lynette S. Autrey Professor, Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University.
Corporate Responsibility Carroll, Archie B.; Lipartito, Kenneth J.; Post, James E. ...
08/2012
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This thought-provoking history of corporate responsibility in the USA is a landmark publication documenting the story of corporate power and business behavior from the mid-eighteenth century to the ...modern day. It shows how the idea of corporate responsibility has evolved over time, with the roles, responsibilities and performance of corporations coming increasingly under the spotlight as new norms of transparency and accountability emerge. Today, it is expected that a corporation will be transparent in its operations; that it will reflect ethical values that are broadly shared by others in society; and that companies will enable society to achieve environmental sustainability as well as a high standard of living. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, the social, political and economic landscape is once again shifting: the need for an informed public conversation about what is expected of the modern corporation has never been greater.
Winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science
Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As ...part of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected scientific data to prove it. Their campaign ended with a settlement agreement that addressed many of their grievances-but not concerns about their health. Yet, instead of continuing to collect data, residents began to let refinery scientists' assertions that their operations did not harm them stand without challenge. What makes a community move so suddenly from actively challenging to apparently accepting experts' authority?
Refining Expertiseargues that the answer lies in the way that refinery scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves asresponsible-committed to operating safely and to contributing to the well-being of the community. The volume shows that by grounding their claims to responsibility in influential ideas from the larger culture about what makes good citizens, nice communities, and moral companies, refinery scientists made it much harder for residents to challenge their expertise and thus re-established their authority over scientific questions related to the refinery's health and environmental effects.
Gwen Ottinger here shows how industrial facilities' current approaches to dealing with concerned communities-approaches which leave much room for negotiation while shielding industry's environmental and health claims from critique-effectively undermine not only individual grassroots campaigns but also environmental justice activismandfar-reaching efforts to democratize science. This work drives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities in response, in order to advance community health and robust scientific knowledge about it.
Visible Hands Knudsen, Jette Steen; Moon, Jeremy
11/2017
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A growing number of states are regulating the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of domestic multinational corporations relating to overseas subsidiaries and suppliers. In this book, Jette Steen ...Knudsen and Jeremy Moon offer a new framework for analysing government–CSR relations: direct and indirect policies for CSR. Arguing that existing research on CSR regulation fails to address the growing role of the state in shaping the international practices of multinational corporations, the authors provide insight into the CSR issues that are addressed by government policies. Drawing on case studies, they analyse three key examples of CSR: non-financial reporting, ethical trade and tax transparency in extractive industries. In doing so, they propose a new research agenda of government and CSR that is relevant to scholars and graduate students in CSR, sustainability, political economy and economic sociology, as well as policymakers and consultants in international development and trade.
This book examines anti-corporate activism in the United States, including analysis of anti-corporate challenges associated with social movements as diverse as the Civil Rights Movement and the ...Dolphin-safe Tuna Movement. Using a unique dataset of protest events in the United States, the book shows that anti-corporate activism is primarily about corporate policies, products, and negligence. Although activists have always been distrustful of corporations and sought to change them, until the 1970s and 1980s, this was primarily accomplished via seeking government regulation of corporations or via organized labor. Sarah A. Soule traces the shift brought about by deregulation and the decline in organized labor, which prompted activists to target corporations directly, often in combination with targeting the state. Using the literatures on contentious and private politics, which are both essential for understanding anti-corporate activism, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the changing focal points of activism directed at corporations.
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