European University Institute Library

Corporate social responsibility?, human rights in the new global economy, edited by Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-371) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Corporate social responsibility?

bibliography

903812385

edited by Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly

human rights in the new global economy

With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and settings. Bringing together cutting-edge scholarship from leading figures in human rights programs around the United States, they vigorously engage some of the major political questions of our age: what is CSR, and how might it render positive political change in the real world? The book examines the diverse approaches to CSR, with a particular focus on how those approaches are siloed within discrete disciplines such as business, law, the social sciences, and human rights. Bridging these disciplines and addressing and critiquing all the conceptual domains of CSR, the book also explores how CSR silos develop as a function of the competition between different interests. Ultimately, the contributors show that CSR actions across all arenas of power are interdependent, continually in dialogue, and mutually constituted. Organizing a diverse range of viewpoints, this book offers a much-needed synthesis of a crucial element of today's globalized world and asks how businesses can, through their actions, make it better for everyone.--, Provided by publisher

Power, profit, and social trust / Charlotte Walker-Said -- Corporate social responsibility as controlled negotiation : the hierarchy of values / Charlotte Walker-Said. Two cheers for CSR / Peter Rosenblum ; Assessing corporate social responsibility in the tobacco industry / Peter Benson ; Transparency, auditability, and the contradictions of CSR / Anna Zalik ; Virtuous language in industry and the academy / Stuart Kirsch -- Corporate social responsibility and the mandate to remedy : between empowerment and mitigating vulnerabilities / Caroline Kaeb. An emerging history of CSR : the economic trials at Nuremberg (1945-49) / Jonathan A. Bush ; The impact of the war crimes tribunals on corporate liability for atrocity crimes under US law / David Scheffer ; Sanction and socialize : military command responsibility and corporate accountability for atrocities / Scott A. Gilmore ; Law, morality, and rational choice : incentives for CSR compliance / Caroline Kaeb ; Multistakeholder initiative anatomy : understanding institutional design and development / Amelia Evans ; The virtue of voluntarism : human rights, corporate responsibility, and UN Global Compact / Ursula Wynhoven, Yousuf Aftab -- Africa as CSR laboratory : twenty-first-century corporate strategy and state building / Charlotte Walker-Said. CSR and corporate engagement with parties to armed conflicts / William Reno ; Corporate and state sustainability in Africa : the politics of stability in the postrevolutionary age / Charlotte Walker-Said ; Tender is the mine : law, shadow rule, and the public gaze in Ghana / Lauren Coyle ; Corporate social responsibility and latecomer industrialization in Nigeria / Richard Joseph, Kelly Spence, and Abimbola Agboluaje