Corporate Responsibility Vol. 1 : The American Experience
ISBN: 9781107020948 | 1107020948
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 10/31/2012
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This landmark history of corporate responsibility documents corporate power and business behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century to the modern day. It shows how corporate responsibility has evolved, with the roles, responsibilities and performance of corporations coming increasingly under the spotlight as new norms of transparency and accountability emerge.
This thought-provoking history of corporate responsibility in the USA is a landmark publication documenting the story of corporate power and business behavior... MORE
This thought-provoking history of corporate responsibility in the USA is a landmark publication documenting the story of corporate power and business behavior... MORE
| List of plates | |
| About the authors | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: the corporation in the public square | |
| The Seeds of Corporate Responsibility | |
| Foundations of capitalism and the birth of the corporation, 1776-1880 | |
| The turbulent rise of the corporation, 1880-1900 | |
| The Progressive Era and a ... MORE | |
| The corporation's case for social responsibility, 1918-1929 | |
| The corporation and national crisis, 1929-1945 | |
| Corporate Responsibility Comes of Age | |
| Corporate legitimacy affirmed, 1945-1963 | |
| A revolution of rising expectations, 1963-1973 | |
| Managing corporate responsibility, 1973-1981 | |
| Taking Account of Corporate Responsibility | |
| Stakeholders and stockholders, 1981-1989 | |
| Corporate responsibility institutionalizes and globalizes, 1989-2001 | |
| A new social contract for the twenty-first century, 2001-2011 | |
| Conclusion: patterns and prospects | |
| Chapter notes | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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