Title:
Corporate responsibility
Author:
Blowfield, Mick.
ISBN:
9780199581078
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
xxi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
Previous edition: 2008.
Contents:
1. Introducing corporate responsibility -- Why corporate responsibility? -- Definitions of corporate responsibility -- Corporate governance -- A framework for understanding corporate responsibility -- Values motivation -- Limitations of corporate responsibility frameworks -- 2. The origins of corporate responsibility -- Introduction -- Three eras of responsibility -- Theories of corporate responsibility -- 3. Sustainable development -- Introduction -- Meanings of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' -- Climate change and global warming -- The challenge to business -- New models of sustainable business -- Capital markets and sustainable development -- Signals to the market -- Rewarding financial intermediaries.
4. Corporate responsibility in developing economies -- Introduction -- Development agent or development tool? -- A brief history of business as development agent -- Theories of development -- The business-poverty framework -- Business as a cause of poverty -- Business as poverty's victim -- Business as solution -- Assessing the business response -- Features of managing poverty -- Business' impact on development -- 5. Globalization and corporate responsibility -- Globalization and corporate responsibility -- The meaning of 'globalization' -- Influence of globalization on business -- Corporate responsibility as a response to globalization -- Unmet challenges -- 6. How corporate responsibility is managed -- Understanding what companies want from corporate responsibility -- Qualities of good corporate responsibility management -- Structuring the corporate responsibility function -- Corporate responsibility as strategy -- The business case for corporate responsibility.
7. The place of corporate responsibility in the corporate governance framework -- What is 'corporate governance'? -- Theories of corporate governance -- The 'drivers' of corporate governance reform -- The development of the LI K corporate governance framework -- International developments in corporate governance -- Commentary on governance codes from a corporate responsibility perspective -- 8. Social accounting -- Understanding corporate responsibility by examining corporate social reports -- The nature of social reporting -- The emergence of corporate social reporting -- The upsurge in social reporting since the early 1990's -- Conventional financial reporting and social reporting -- Reporting issues for corporate management -- The role of third-party verification statements -- 9. Stakeholder management and engagement -- Meaning and origins of stakeholder -- Corporate responsibility standards -- Stakeholder consensus: deviance and uniformity -- Government and governance.
10. Socially responsible investment -- The origins and development of socially responsible investment -- Sustainable investing -- Types of SRI analysis and practice -- Engagement -- Other SRI approaches -- SRI performance -- SRI index performance -- SRI fund performance -- Market growth -- Trends in SRI -- 11. Corporate responsibility In smaller enterprises -- The small business 'problem' -- The meaning and significance of smaller business -- Local, national, and regional differences between SMEs -- SMEs as society members -- SME perspectives on corporate responsibility -- Responsibility issues for SMEs -- SMEs and corporate responsibility management -- Social enterprise -- Meanings of social enterprise -- Why now?
12. The impact of corporate responsibility -- Understanding impact -- Different dimensions of the impact of corporate responsibility -- The challenges of determining impact -- 13. Criticisms of corporate responsibility -- Introducing critiques of corporate responsibility -- 'Corporate responsibility is anti-business' -- 'Corporate responsibility is pro-business' -- 'The scope of corporate responsibility is too narrow' -- 'Corporate responsibility fails to achieve its goals' -- 14. The future of corporate responsibility -- Where is corporate responsibility heading? -- Mega-trends affecting corporate responsibility -- Embedding and integrating corporate responsibility -- Transition and transformation -- The role of business in society.
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