The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility

by Crane, Andrew; McWilliams, Abagail; Matten, Dirk; Moon, Jeremy; Siegel, Donald S.

• ISBN13: 9780199211593
• ISBN10: 0199211590
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Andrew Crane is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics in the Schulich School of Business at York University. He has a PhD in Management from the University of Nottingham, and was previously Chair in Business Ethics and Director of the UK's first MBA in CSR in the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School.
Abagail McWilliams, PhD - Ohio State University, is a Professor in the College of Business, University of Illinois - Chicago and since 2002 has been a Visiting Professor in the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility - University of Nottingham. Her research on CSR has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies.
Dirk Matten holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. He holds a doctoral degree and the habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, Germany. He is interested in CSR, business ethics and comparative management. He has published widely, including in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, and Business Ethics Quarterly.
Jeremy Moon is Professor and Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School. Recent publications include Corporations and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press) and papers in Academy of Management Review and British Journal of Management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Donald S. Siegel is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of California, Riverside. Recent publications include Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (Oxford University Press) and articles on CSR in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and Leadership Quarterly. He is editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer, an associate editor of the Journal of Business Venturing and the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning & Education, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. ix
Editor Biographies	p. xi
Author Biographies	p. xii
Introduction
The Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda	p. 3
Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
A History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Concepts and Practices	p. 19
Corporate Social Responsibility Theories	p. 47
The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 83
Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance: A Research Synthesis	p. 113
Critiques of Corporate Social Responsibility
Principals and Agents: Further Thoughts on the Friedmanite Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 137
Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of the Firm-On the Denial of Politics	p. 156
Critical Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility: Can/Should We Get Beyond Cynical Reasoning?	p. 173
Much Ado about Nothing: A Conceptual Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 197
Actors and Drivers
Top Managers as Drivers for Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 227
Socially Responsible Investment and Shareholder Activism	p. 249
Consumers as Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 281
Corporate Social Responsibility, Government, and Civil Society	p. 303
Managing Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 327
Stakeholder Theory: Managing Corporate Social Responsibility in a Multiple Actor Context	p. 346
Responsibility in the Supply Chain	p. 363
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Reporting and Assurance Dimension	p. 384
Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Context
Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 413
Corporate Social Responsibility and Theories of Global Governance: Strategic Contestation in Global Issue Arenas	p. 432
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Comparative Perspective	p. 452
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries	p. 473
Future Perspectives and Conclusions
Educating for Responsible Management	p. 503
Corporate Social Responsibility: Deep Roots, Flourishing Growth, Promising Future	p. 522
Senior Management Preferences and Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 532
The Transatlantic Paradox: How Outdated Concepts Confuse the American/European Debate about Corporate Governance	p. 543
Spirituality as a Firm Basis for Corporate Social Responsibility	p. 552
Future Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility: Where we are Coming from? Where are we Heading?	p. 560
Conclusion	p. 568
Index	p. 577
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