Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship

by Scherer, Andreas Georg; Palazzo, Guido

• ISBN13: 9781845428365
• ISBN10: 1845428366
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-08
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Summary

The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. This exciting and important Handbook provides a unique forum to discuss the consequences of the social and political mandate of business firms and examines the implications of these consequences for the theory of the firm. Leading academics have been invited from various disciplines such as management studies, economics, sociology, legal studies and political science to evaluate the concept of corporate citizenship and to analyze the role of private business in global governance and the production of global public goods.

Table of Contents

Introduction: corporate citizenship in a globalized world	p. 1
History and Conceptual Groundwork
The emergence of corporate citizenship: historical development and alternative perspectives	p. 25
Corporate responsibility/corporate citizenship: the development of a construct	p. 50
Defining the concept of good corporate citizenship in the context of globalization: a paradigm shift from corporate social responsibility to corporate social accountability	p. 74
Corporate citizenship and community stakeholders	p. 99
Business ethics, corporate virtues and corporate citizenship	p. 116
Contemporary Issues and Challenges
Responsihility and global justice: a social connection model	p. 137
Corporate citizenship and the environment	p. 166
Corporations as citizens against corruption: an institutional entrepreneurship perspective	p. 185
Corporate citizenship and global conflicts: the baboon moment	p. 208
Actors, Institutions and Global Governance
Emerging patterns of global governance: the new interplay between the state, business and civil society	p. 225
Globalization, transnational corporations and the future of global governance	p. 249
Between confrontation and cooperation: corporate citizenship and NGOs	p. 273
The politicizarion of economization? On the current relationship between politics and economics	p. 293
Disciplinary Perspectives on Corporate Citizenship
The economic view of corporate citizenship	p. 315
Human rights, corporations and the global economy: an international lawperspective	p. 343
Global business as an agent of world benefit: new international business perspectives leading positive change	p. 374
Implications for Management Theory Building
Structures, identities and politics: bringing corporate citizenship into the corporation	p. 405
Responsible leadership in a globalized world: a cosmopolitan perspective	p. 430
The political economy of corporate social responsibility	p. 454
The interrelationship between global and corporate governance: towards a democratization of the business firm?	p. 476
Critical Perspectives
Transparency, integrity and openness: the Nike example	p. 501
The corporation and its fragments: corporate citizenship and the legacies of imperialism	p. 527
The corporation as a political actor? A systems theory perspective	p. 552
The Future of Global Corporate Citizenship
The future of global corporate citizenship: toward a new theory of the firm as a political actor	p. 577
Index	p. 591
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