Corporate social irresponsibility a challenging concept

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly heated topic since the 1980s. But there are severe limitations with the concept of CSR and the effectiveness of CSR practices. Addressing such limitations, this volume proposes that the concept of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tench, Ralph
Other Authors: Sun, William, Jones, Brian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald 2012
Series:Critical studies on corporate responsibility, governance and sustainability
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The challenging concept of corporate social irresponsibility : an introduction / Ralph Tench, William Sun, Brian Jones
  • What CSR is not : corporate social irresponsibility / Timothy S. Clark, Kristen N. Grantham
  • A rather delicious paradox : social responsibility and the manufacture of armaments / N.A.J. Taylor
  • The structural contradictions and constraints on corporate social responsibility : challenges for corporate social irresponsibility / Alex Nunn
  • The Janus dialectic of corporate social irresponsibility and corporate social responsibility : the role of micro-moments / Peter Stokes
  • Economic rationality and corporate social irresponsibility : an illustrative review of social capital theory / Paul Manning
  • Rating agencies as a corporate governance mechanism : power and trust production in debt capital markets / Clea Bourne
  • Organisations behaving badly : the role of communication in understanding CSI and CSR / Jennifer Bartlett, Steve May, Øyvind Ihlen
  • Reconstructing stakeholder relationships using 'corporate social responsibility' as a response strategy to cases of corporate irresponsibility : the case of the 2010 BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico / Audra R. Diers
  • The structural dynamics of corporate social irresponsibility : the case of the Canadian mining industry / Nicole Marie Lindsay
  • The community obligations of Canadian oil companies : a case study of talisman in the Sudan / Trish Glazebrook, Matt Story
  • Impact of corporate social irresponsibility on the corporate image and reputation of multinational oil corporations in Nigeria / Olusanmi C. Amujo ... [et al.]
  • The irresponsible enterprise : the ethics of corporate downsizing / Brad S. Long