ECONIS Select – Content and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility

06/2009

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) represents a company’s voluntary commitment to address the ethical, social and environmental factors associated with all aspects of its operations. What is the appropriate role of CSR in an era of rapid globalization and decline of traditional welfare state policies? Should CSR be directed primarily at exploiting the core competences of companies, or should it focus more strongly on the prevailing social needs, independently of these competences? Should companies assume responsibility for potentially detrimental activities by suppliers and customers and, if so, how?

How can CSR help reconcile conflicting interests generated through business activity? What role can CSR play in defining and implementing rules to govern transnational relationships between firms and their stakeholders?

What role should governments play in facilitating and supporting CSR? How can politicians be discouraged from treating CSR as a substitute for good public policy? What is the role of NGOs and other civil society institutions in finding a balance between public and private satisfaction of social needs?

Literature selected from our database ECONIS:

• Title: Financial markets and the banking sector : roles and responsibilities in a global world / ed. by Elisabeth Paulet
  Year: London [u.a.] : Pickering & Chatto, 2009
  Series: Financial history series ; 10
  Keywords: Internationaler Finanzmarkt / Bank / Globalisierung / Wirtschaftsethik / Corporate Social Responsibility / Welt / 1983-2006
  Signature: B 363347
• Paper: On multinational corporations and the provision of positive rights / Baris Parkan
  In: Journal of business ethics . - Dordrecht : Springer, ISSN 0167-4544, ZDB-ID 8680176. - Bd. 85.2009, S. 73-82
  Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen / Unternehmensethik / Corporate Social Responsibility / Grundrecht / Menschenrechte
• Paper: The interrelationship between global and corporate governance : towards a democratization of the business firm? / Grahame F. Thompson
  In: Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship . - Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, ISBN 1-8454-2836-6. - 2008, S. 476-498
  Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen / Corporate Governance / Stakeholder / Corporate Social Responsibility / Unternehmensethik / Global Governance
• Title: Special issue: 14th Annual Vincentian International Conference on Justice for the Poor : a Global Business Ethics / guest eds.: Marilynn Fleckenstein ...
  Year: Dordrecht : Springer, 2009
  Series: Journal of business ethics ; 85.2009,Suppl.1
  Keywords: Unternehmensethik / Corporate Social Responsibility / Armut / Soziale Gerechtigkeit / Multinationales Unternehmen
  Signature: Z 6123: 85.2009
• Title: The role of corporate citizens in fighting poverty: an ordonomic approach to global justice / Ingo Pies u. Stefan Hielscher
  Year: Halle : Martin-Luther-Universität, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsethik, 2008
  Series: Diskussionspapier des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftsethik an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg ; 2008,10
  Keywords: Unternehmensethik / Wirtschaftsethik / Corporate Social Responsibility / Armutspolitik / Globalisierung / Soziale Gerechtigkeit / Theorie
  Signature: C 257433
• Paper: Philosophical foundations : moral reasoning, human rights, and global labor practices / Denis G. Arnold
  In: Multinational enterprises and host economies; Vol. 2: . - Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar. - 2008, S. 469-491
  Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen / Unternehmensethik / Internationale Sozialstandards / Corporate Social Responsibility / Menschenrechte / Entwicklungsländer
• Paper: The development of human rights responsibilities for multinational enterprises / Peter Muchlinski
  In: Corporate social responsibility . - London [u.a.] : Routledge, ISBN 0-415-42428-3. - 2008, S. 233-255
  Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen / Corporate Social Responsibility / Menschenrechte
• Paper: Multinational enterprises : interacting with nongovernmental organizations / Lee Tavis
  In: Peace through commerce . - Notre Dame, Ind. : Univ. of Notre Dame Press, ISBN 0-268-04414-7. - 2008, S. 413-430
  Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen / Nichtregierungsorganisation / Unternehmenskooperation / Corporate Social Responsibility / Welt
• Title: Corporate social responsibility : readings and cases in a global context / ed. by Andrew Crane ...
  Year: London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2008
  Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility / Wirtschaftsethik / Unternehmensethik / Stakeholder / Menschenrechte / Umweltbelastung / Sozialbilanz / Altruismus / Soziales Verhalten / Globalisierung / Welt
  Signature: LS-B01-000.840
• Paper: Transforming innovation and development practice in the Global South? : myths, realities and the prospects for base-of-the-pyramid approaches / James T. Murphy
  In: Sustainability challenges and solutions at the base of the pyramid . - Sheffield : Greenleaf, ISBN 978-1-906093-11-2. - 2008, S. 412-429
  Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen / Innovation / Niedrigeinkommen / Nachhaltige Entwicklung / Corporate Social Responsibility / Armutspolitik / Entwicklungsländer
• Paper: Corporate social responsibility, government, and civil society / Jeremy Moon; David Vogel
  In: The Oxford handbook of corporate social responsibility . - Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 0-19-921159-0. - 2008, S. 303-323
  Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility / Staatliche Einflussnahme / Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein
• Paper: Cocreating businesss new social compact / Jeb Brugmann and C. K. Prahalad
  In: Harvard business review on emerging markets . - Boston, Mass : Harvard Business School Publ., ISBN 978-1-422-12649-3. - 2008, S. 173-200
  Keywords: Globalisierung / Multinationales Unternehmen / Nichtregierungsorganisation / Unternehmensethik / Corporate Social Responsibility / Governance-Ansatz
• Paper: The economic view of corporate citizenship / Jessica C. Ludescher, Abagail McWilliams and Donald D. Siegel
  In: Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship . - Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, ISBN 1-8454-2836-6. - 2008, S. 315-342
  Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility / Unternehmensethik / Multinationales Unternehmen / Stakeholder / Wirtschaftstheorie
• Paper: The sustainable peace roles of international extractive industries / Duane Windsor
  In: International business under adversity . - Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, ISBN 1-8472-0374-4. - 2008, S. 119-135
  Keywords: Rohstoffwirtschaft / Multinationales Unternehmen / Sozialer Konflikt / Friedenssicherung / Corporate Social Responsibility / Unternehmensethik / Entwicklungsländer
• Paper: On the responsibility on MNCs : some reflections / George Andreopoulos; Guiliana Campanelli Andreopoulos; Alexandros Panayides
  In: International business and economics research journal . - Littleton, Colo. : Western Academic Press, ISSN 1535-0754, ZDB-ID 21436708. - Bd. 7.2008, 6, S. 61-65
  Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen / Corporate Social Responsibility / Unternehmensethik / Menschenrechte / Welt
• Paper: The downward spiral and the US model business principles : why MNEs should take responsibilty for the improvement of world-wide social and envrionmental conditions / Andreas Georg Scherer and Marc Smid
  In: Corporate social responsibility . - London [u.a.] : Routledge, ISBN 0-415-42428-3. - 2008, S. 474-495
  Keywords: Multinationales Unternehmen / Corporate Social Responsibility / Unternehmensethik / Umweltauflage / Internationale Sozialstandards
• Paper: Governing multinational corporations in the Pacific / Robert Scollay
  In: Multinational corporations and the emerging network economy in Asia and the Pacific . - London [u.a.] : Routledge, ISBN 0-415-43332-0. - 2008, S. 267-282
  Keywords: Globalisierung / Internationale Unternehmenskooperation / Multinationales Unternehmen / Corporate Social Responsibility / Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum / 1980-2004
• Paper: Defining the concept of good corporate citizenship in the context of globalization : a paradigm shift from corporate social responsibility to corporate social accountability / S. Prakash Sethi
  In: Handbook of research on global corporate citizenship . - Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, ISBN 1-8454-2836-6. - 2008, S. 74-98
  Keywords: Unternehmensethik / Corporate Social Responsibility / Globalisierung / Corporate Governance
• Title: Social justice and development / Behrooz Morvaridi
  Year: Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
  Keywords: Soziale Gerechtigkeit / Entwicklung / Globalisierung / Global Governance / Multinationales Unternehmen / Corporate Social Responsibility / Unternehmensethik
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  Signature: B 357458
• Paper: Rhetoric and realities in CSR : main findings and implications for public policy and research / Franziska Wolff, Regine Barth, Christian Hochfeld and Katharina Schmitt
  In: Corporate social responsibility in Europe . - Cheltenham [u.a.] : Edward Elgar, ISBN 1-8472-0764-2. - 2009, S. 289-311
  Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility / Makroökonomischer Einfluss / Nachhaltige Entwicklung / Governance-Ansatz / Europa