Corporate social responsibility and corporate governance: the contribution of economic theory and related disciplines

Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholderapproach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutional and stakeholder theories of the firm, new rational choice and social contract normative models, self regulatory and soft law models, and the advances from behavioural economics. . LORENZO SACCONI Professor of Economics, University of Trento and EconomEtica, Inter-University Research Centre, Milan, Italy. . MARGARET BLAIR Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School, USA. . R. EDWARD FREEMAN University Professor and Olsson Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, USA. ALESSANDRO VERCELLI Professor of Economics, University of Siena, Italy. INDICE: - Introduction - PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON THE NATURE OF THE FIRM AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: TRANSACTION COSTS, TEAM PRODUCTION AND STAKEHOLDER THEORY - Corporate Governance: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective - Human-Asset Essentiality and Corporate Social Capital in a Stakeholders-Society Perspective - Stakeholder Theory as a Basis for Capitalism - Behavioral Economics, Federalism and the Triumph of Stakeholder Theory - Specific Investment andCorporate Law - PART II: THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTRACT AND NORMATIVE RATIONAL CHOICE MODELS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, AND CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility in a Market Economy: The Perspective of Constitutional Economics - A Rawlsian View on CSR and the Game Theory of its Implementation (Part I): The Multi-stakeholder Model of Corporate Governance - A Rawlsian View on CSR and the Game Theory of its Implementation (Part II): Fairness and Equilibrium - When Reputation is not Enough: Justifying Corporate Social Responsibility - Rational Association and Corporate Responsibility - PART III: CSR, REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION - The Sustainable Corporation and its Governance: Long Run Performance and Social Responsibility - The Role of Standardization, Certification and Assurance Service in Global Commerce - PART IV: MODELS OF NON-PURELY SELF-INTERESTED ECONOMIC AGENTS AND THE INTRINISIC MOTIVATION FOR THE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLEGOVERNANCE OF THE ORGANISATIONS - Voluntary Co-determination Produces Sustainable Competitive Advantage - Corporate Trust Games in Modern Knowledge Economies - Effects of Different Stakeholder Groups' Strategic Control on Organizational Effectiveness and Well-being of Customers and Employees: An Empirical Investigation - Trusting, Trustworthiness and CSR: Some Experiments and Implications -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23654-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 488
• Fecha Publicación: 14/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido