Synopses & Reviews
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has attracted a great deal of discussion and debate in the current phase of neoliberal globalization, both as a conceptual framework and as an apparently fresh facet of corporate culture, particularly with regard to business ethics, social and environmental sustainability, and human rights. While the corporate world is increasingly seen to be articulating its regard for social responsibility, critics continue to see this more as a myth than a reality. They point out that corporate capital is, in the final analysis, interested in accumulation alone. In this fascinating volume, a group of internationally renowned scholars discuss the discourses, practices and perspectives on CSR across a wide range of multicultural and multi-ethnic experiences from Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Synopsis
Internationally renowned scholars investigate the discourses, practices and perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across a wide range of multicultural, multi-ethnic and cross country experiences. Case studies are included from Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Synopsis
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of a new type of executive instability without regime instability in Latin America referred to as "presidential breakdown." It includes a theoretical introduction framing the debate within the institutional literature on democracy and democratization, and the implications of this new type of executive instability for presidential democracies. Two comparative chapters analyze the causes, procedures, and outcomes of presidential breakdowns in a regional perspective, and country studies provide indepth analyses of all countries in Latin America that have experienced one or several presidential breakdowns: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. The book also includes an epilogue on the 2009 presidential crisis in Honduras.
Synopsis
This book is a collection of 12 papers contributed by internationally renowned scholars on the discourses, practices and perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across a wide range of multicultural, multi-ethnic and cross country experiences.
About the Author
K. RAVI RAMAN is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK. A political economist, he focuses his research on civil society-state/corporate relations, post-development social movements, political economy of development, and political-anthropology of state and state effects. Recent publications include
Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: History and Political Economy of Plantations in India and
Development, Democracy and State.
RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ is Professor of Politics and former Co-director of the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. His primary areas of research and teaching are international politics, global environmental affairs, U.S. foreign policy, globalization, international regulation, and film, fiction, and politics. His most recent books include The Constitution of Imperium and Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics:
Regulation for the Rest of Us?.
Table of Contents
Strange Bedfellows? Critiquing Corporate Social Responsibility;
K.R.RamanCorporate Social Responsibility in the Era of Capitalist Globalization; L.Sklair
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Problem of Human Rights: Who is Protecting Whom?; R.D.Lipschutz
The Opportunities and Limits of Corporate Support for Voluntary Activity in Canada: Evidence from Voluntary Organizations;
P.Bowles & F.MacPhail
Indigenous/NGO Alliances Confronting Corporate/State Alliances: The Case of Jabiluka Uranium Prospect; K.Trebeck
Romania ltd. - A Case Study of Irresponsible Conduct in Human Resources; C.Crisan
Extractive Industries and Stunted States: Conflict, Responsibility and Institutional Change in the Andes; A.Bebbington
From Corporate Accountability to Shared Responsibility: Dealing with Pollution in a Peruvian Smelter Town; F.Li
Beyond Bureaucracies? The Struggle for Self-Determination and Social Responsibility in the Argentine Worker-Run Companies; A.Bryer
Business for Peace, or Peace for Business? The Role of Corporate Peace Activism in the Rise and Fall of Sri Lanka's Peace Process; R.Venugopal
Commercial Microfinance in India: Loan Angels or Loan Sharks; D.Ajit & K.R.Raman
Corporate Social Responsibility, Local Livelihood and Human Rights: The Case of Coca Cola in India; K.R.Raman
Land Acquisition: Impossibility of Corporate Social Responsibility; P.K.Basu
Shifting Terrain of Ethical Trade: Corporate and Civil Society Engagement in South African Agriculture; S.Barrientos & A.Kritzinger
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Problem of Human Rights: Who is Protecting Whom; R.D.Lipschutz
Notes
Bibliography
Index