Corporate social responsibility and regulatory governance: towards inclusive development?

This is the first of two volumes that examine the changing nature of state-business relations. This book assesses the potential and limits of CSR in developing countries, by focusing on aspects that are often ignored in the CSR literature: historical experience, theoretical perspectives, and institutional and political dimensions of change. INDICE: - List of Tables and Figures - Preface - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: The Intellectual Crisis of CSR; P.Utting ; J.C.Marques - CSR and Changing Modes of Governance: Towards Corporate Noblesse Oblige?; C.Crouch - Wal-Martization and CSR-ization in Developing Countries; N-L.Sum - Corporate Social Responsibility in a Neoliberal Age; P.Ireland ; R.G.Pillay - Linking Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Policy in Zambia; N.Noyoo - Business, Corporate Responsibility and Poverty Reduction; M.Blowfield - Transnational Corporations and Poverty Reduction: Strategic and Regional Variations; R.van Tulder - Cross-sector Partnership as an Approach to Inclusive Development; R.Findlay-Brooks, W.Visser ; T.Wright - Growing Sustainable Business in East Africa: The Potential and Limits of Partnerships for Development; C.Gregoratti - Private Food Governance: Implications for Social Sustainability and Democratic Legitimacy; D.Fuchs ; A.Kalfagianni - Spaces of Contestation: The Governance of Industry's Environmental Performance in Durban, South Africa; J.Van Alstine - Challenging Governance in Global Commodity Chains: The Case of Transnational Activist Campaigns for Better Work Conditions; F.Palpacuer - Notes - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57644-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 12/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés