Although the idea of social responsibility has a long and distinguished
intellectual pedigree, Corporate Social Responsibility (or ‘CSR’) has re-emerged
during the last fifteen years or so as a high-profile concept in both academia and
business practice. This revitalized interest has come about largely because of the
development of the ‘markets for virtue’ that have institutionalized CSR in business
practices in an unprecedented manner. CSR has achieved organizational distinctiveness
within companies (e.g. in managerial and board responsibilities); social and environmental
reporting requirements have dramatically increased; socially responsible investment funds
have not only established themselves in their own right, but have also informed more
mainstream investment criteria, particularly regarding social and environmental risk; a
CSR consultancy industry has emerged, along with various ‘vanguard groups’ and NGOs
who seek not only to promote CSR, but also to bring critical perspectives to bear and to
raise CSR standards; and governments around the globe have encouraged investment in CSR,
better reporting of these activities, and the implementation of CSR initiatives that
complement broader public policies.
As research in and around CSR blossoms as never before, this new
four-volume collection from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Perspectives on Business and
Management series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a
rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by two scholars from
Nottingham University’s world-class International Centre for Corporate Social
Responsibility, the collection gathers foundational and canonical work, together with
innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions.
With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the
editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context,
Corporate Social Responsibility is an essential work of reference. The collection will be
particularly useful as an essential database allowing scattered and often fugitive
material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid
access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts. For researchers, students,
practitioners, and policy-makers, it is as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic
resource.
Table of Contents
Volume I: Early Testimonies and Emerging Contestations
Part 1: Early Testimonies and Emerging Contestations
1. J. M. Clark, ‘The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility’, Journal of
Political Economy, 1916, 24, 3, 209–29.
2. F. W. Abrams, ‘Management Responsibilities in a Complex World’, Harvard
Business Review, 1951, 29, 3, 29–34.
3. H. R. Bowen, ‘Why are Businessmen Concerned About their Social Responsibility?’,
Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (Harper & Brothers, 1953), pp.
84–106.
4. H. R. Bowen, ‘The Doctrine of Social Responsibility: Some Criticisms’, Social
Responsibilities of the Businessman (Harper & Brothers, 1953), pp. 107–24.
5. T. Levitt, ‘The Dangers of Social Responsibility’, Harvard Business Review,
1958, 36, 41–50.
6. F. A. Hayek, ‘The Corporation in a Democratic Society: In Whose Interest Ought it
and Will it Be Run?’, in M. Anshen and G. L. Bach (eds.), Management and Corporation
(McGraw-Hill, 1960), pp. 99–117.
7. K. Davis, ‘Can Business Afford to Ignore Social Responsibilities?’, California
Management Review, 1960, 2, 3, 70–7.
8. M. Friedman, ‘Monopoly and the Social Responsibility of Business and Labor’, Capitalism
and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 1962), pp. 119–36.
9. K. Arrow, ‘Social Responsibility and Economic Efficiency’, Public Policy,
1973, 21, 303–17.
10. J. K. Galbraith, ‘The Goals of the Industrial System’, The New Industrial
State (Houghton Mifflin, 1967), pp. 183–4.
11. H. R. Bowen, ‘Social Responsibility of the businessman: Twenty Years Later’, in
E. M. Epstein and D. Votaw (eds.), Rationality, Legitimacy, Responsibility: The Search
for New Directions in Business and Society (Goodyear Publishing Co., 1978), pp.
116–30.
12. Peter F. Drucker, ‘The New Meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility’, California
Management Review, 1984, XXVI, 2, 53–63.
Part 2: Historical Emergence of CSR Practice
13. M. Heald, ‘Business in the Era of Reform: The Social Responsibilities of
Business’, Company and Community 1900–1960 (Case Western Reserve University
Press, 1970), pp. 21–53.
14. A. B. Carroll, ‘A History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Concepts and
Practices’, in A. Crane et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social
Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 19–46.
Part 3: Theoretical Foundations: CSR Concepts and Frameworks
15. W. C. Frederick, ‘From CSR1 to CSR2: The Maturing of Business-and-Society
Thought’, Business and Society, 1978, 33, 2, 150–65.
16. R. W. Ackerman, ‘How Companies Respond to Social Demands’, California
Management Review, 1973, 88–98.
17. L. E. Preston and J. E. Post, ‘Private Management and Public Policy’, California
Management Review, 1981, 13, 3, 56–62.
18. A. B. Carroll, ‘A Three Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Performance’,
Academy of Management Review, 1979, 4, 4, 497–505.
19. J. Mahon and S. Wartick, ‘Toward a Substantive Definition of the Corporate Issue
Construct’, Business and Society, 1994, 33, 3, 293–311.
20. A. Crane, D. Matten, and J. Moon, ‘Corporations as Citizens’, Corporations
and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 19–49.
Part 4: Analysing and Mapping CSR Research
21. L. E. Preston, ‘Corporation and Society: The Search for a Paradigm’, Journal
of Economic Literature, 1975, 13, 2, 334–54.
22. D. J. Wood, ‘Corporate Social Performance Revisited’, Academy of Management
Review, 1991, 16, 4, 691–718.
23. J. P. Walsh, K. Weber, and J. D. Margolis, ‘Social Issues and Management: Our
Lost Cause Found’, Journal of Management Studies, 2003, 29, 6, 859–81.
24. E. Garriga and D. Melé, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the
Territory’, Journal of Business Ethics, 2004, 53, 1–2, 51–71.
Volume II: CSR Strategy
Part 1: Stakeholder Theory
25. R. Edward Freeman, ‘Managing for Stakeholders’, in Norman Bowie, T. Beauchamp,
and Denis Arnold (eds.), Ethical Theory and Business, 8th edn. (Prentice Hall,
2009), pp. 56–67.
26. Thomas Donaldson and L. E. Preston, ‘The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation:
Concepts, Evidence and Implications’, Academy of Management Review, 1995, 20,
1, 65–91.
27. Ronald K. Mitchell, Bradley R. Agle, and Donna J. Wood, ‘Toward a Theory of
Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really
Counts’, Academy of Management Review, 1997, 22, 4, 853–86.
28. Bradley R. Agle et al., ‘Dialogue: Toward Superior Stakeholder Theory’, Business
Ethics Review, 1997, 18, 2, 153–90.
Part 2: Stakeholder Relations
29. David Hess, Nikolai Rogovsky, and Thomas W. Dunfee, ‘The Next Wave of Corporate
Community Involvement’, California Management Review, 2002, 44, 2, 110–25.
30 J.-P. Gond et al., ‘A Corporate Social Performance: Corporate Financial
Performance Behavioural Model for Employees’, in C. Bhattacharya et al. (eds.), Corporate
Responsibility and Global Business: Implications for Corporate and Marketing Strategy
(Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 13–48.
31. C. B Bhattacharya and Sankar Sen, ‘Doing Better at Doing Good: When, Why and How
Consumers Respond to Corporate Social Initiatives’, California Management Review,
2004, 47, 1, 9–24.
32. Pietra Rivoli, ‘Making a Difference or Making a Statement? Finance Research and
Socially Responsible Investment’, Business Ethics Quarterly, 2003, 13, 3,
271–87.
33. Stuart L. Hart, ‘Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World’, Harvard
Business Review, Jan. 1997, 67–76.
34. Isabelle Maignan, Bas Hillebrand, and Debbie McAlister ‘Managing Socially
Responsible Buying: How to Integrate Non-Economic Criteria in to the Purchasing
Process’, European Journal of Management, 2002, 20, 6, 641–48.
Part 3: Implementation
35. Philip Mirvis and Bradley Googins, ‘Stages of Corporate Citizenship’, California
Management Review, 2006, 48, 2, 104–26.
36. François Maon, Adam Lindgreen, and Valérie Swaen, ‘Organizational Stages and
Cultural Phases: A Critical Review and a Consolidative Model of Corporate Social
Responsibility Development’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 2010,
12, 1, 20–38.
Part 4: Competitive Advantage and Financial Performance
37. Lee Burke and Jeannie M. Logsdon, ‘How Corporate Responsibility Pays Off’, Long
Range Planning, 1996, 29, 4, 495–502.
38. Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, ‘Strategy and Society: The Link Between
Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility’, Harvard Business Review,
Dec. 2006.
39. Abagail McWilliams and Donald Siegel, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: A Theory
of the Firm Perspective’, Academy of Management Review, 2001, 26, 1, 117–27.
40. Michael L. Barnett, ‘Stakeholder Influence Capacity and the Variability of
Financial Returns to Corporate Social Responsibility’, Academy of Management Review,
2007, 32, 3, 794–816.
41. Joshua D. Margolis and James P. Walsh, ‘Misery Loves Companies’, Administrative
Science Quarterly, 2003, 48, 268–305.
42. Marc Orlitzky and Diane L. Swanson, ‘Corporate Social and Financial Performance:
An Integrated Review’, Toward Integrative Corporate Citizenship: Research Advances
in Corporate Social Performance (Palgrave, 2008), pp. 83–120.
Volume III: Comparative and Global CSR
Part 1: Conceptualizations of Comparative CSR
43. Dirk Matten and Jeremy Moon, ‘"Implicit" and "Explicit" CSR:
A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social
Responsibility’, Academy of Management Review, 2008, 33, 2, 404–24.
44. R. Aguilera et al., ‘Putting the S back in Corporate Social Responsibility: A
Multi-Level Theory of Social Change in Organizations’, Academy of Management Review,
2007, 32, 3, 836–63.
Part 2: CSR in Countries and Regions
45. Isabelle Maignan and David A. Ralston, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe
and the USA: Insights from Businesses’ Self-Presentations’, Journal of
International Business Studies, 2002, 33, 3, 497–514.
46. Maria Gjolberg, ‘Measuring the Immeasurable? Constructing an Index of CSR
Practices and CSR Performance in 20 Countries’, Scandinavian Journal of Management,
2009, 25, 1, 10–22.
47. Wendy Chapple and Jeremy Moon, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Asia: A
Seven-Country Study of CSR Web Site Reporting’, Business and Society, 2005, 44,
4, 415–41.
48. Ans Kolk and Rob Van Tulder, ‘Poverty Alleviation as Business Strategy?
Evaluating Commitments of Frontrunner Multinational Corporations’, World Development,
2006, 34, 5, 789–801.
49. Gabriel Eweje, ‘The Role of MNEs in Community Development Initiatives in
Developing Countries’, Business and Society, 2006, 45, 2, 93–129.
50. Bimal Arora and Ravi Puranik, ‘A Review of Corporate Social Responsibility in
India’, Development, 2004, 47, 3, 93–100.
51. Jeremy Moon, Nahee Kang, and Jean-Pascal Gond, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility
and Government’, in David Coen, Graham Wilson, and Wyn Grant (eds.), The Oxford
Handbook of Business and Government (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 512–43.
52. Vanessa M. Strike, Jijun Gao, and Pratima Bansal, ‘Being Good While Being Bad:
Social Responsibility and the International Diversification of US Firms’, Journal of
International Business Studies, 2006, 37, 6, 850–62.
Part 3: CSR and Global Governance
53. Thomas Donaldson and Thomas W. Dunfee, ‘Toward a Unified Conception of Business
Ethics: Integrative Social Contracts Theory’, Academy of Management Review,
1994, 19, 2, 252–84.
54. John Gerard Ruggie, ‘Reconstituting the Global Public Domain: Issues, Actors and
Practices’, European Journal of International Relations, 2004, 10, 4,
499–531.
55. Andreas Rasche, ‘A Necessary Supplement: What the United Nations Global Compact
Is and Is Not’, Business and Society, 2009, 48, 4, 511–37.
56. David Vogel, ‘The Private Regulation of Global Corporate Conduct: Achievements
and Limitations’, Business and Society, 2010, 49, 1, 68–87.
57. Andreas Georg Schrerer, Guido Palazzo, and Dorothea Baumann, ‘Global Rules and
Private Actors: Towards a New Role of the Transnational Corporation in Global
Governance’, Business Ethics Quarterly, 2006, 16, 4, 505–32.
58. Andre Sobczak, ‘Are Codes of Conduct in Global Supply Chains Really Voluntary?
From Soft Law Regulation of Labour Relations to Consumer Law’, Business Ethics
Quarterly, 2006, 16, 2, 167–84.
59. Stephen J. Kobrin, ‘Private Political Authority and Public Responsibility:
Transnational Politics, Transnational Firms, and Human Rights’, Business Ethics
Quarterly, 2009, 19, 3, 349–74.
Volume IV: Critical Reflections and Emerging Perspectives
Part 1: Deconstructing CSR Practice and Concepts
60. D. Doane, ‘The Myth of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Problem with Assuming
That Companies Can Do Well While Also Doing Good is That Markets Don’t Really Work That
Way’, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2005, Fall, 23–9.
61. E. Sterneberg, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance’, Institute
of Economic Affairs, 2009.
62. R. Shamir, ‘Mind the Gap: Commodifying Corporate Social Responsibility’, Symbolic
Interaction, 2005, 28, 2, 229–53.
63. S. B. Banerjee, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly’, Critical Sociology, 2008, 34, 1, 51–79.
64. J.-P. Gond, G. Palazzo, and K. Basu, ‘Reconsidering Instrumental Corporate Social
Responsibility Through the Mafia Metaphor’, Business Ethics Quarterly, 2009,
19, 1, 57–85.
65. R. Marens, ‘Wobbling on a One-Legged Stool: The Decline of American Pluralism and
the Academic Treatment of Corporate Social Responsibility’, Journal of Academic
Ethics, 2004, 2, 1, 63–87.
66. T. Rowley and S. Berman, ‘A Brand New Brand of Corporate Social Performance’, Business
and Society, 2000, 39, 4, 397–418.
Part 2: Constructing CSR in the Corporation: Discourse and Objects
67. M. Humphreys and A. D. Brown, ‘An Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility at
Credit Line: A Narrative Approach’, Journal of Business Ethics, 2008, 80,
403–18.
68. K. Basu and G. Palazzo, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: A Process Model of
Sensemaking’, Academy of Management Review, 2008, 33, 1, 122–36.
69. Robert Caruana and Andrew Crane, ‘Constructing Consumer Responsibility: Exploring
the Role of Corporate Communication’, Organization Studies, 2008, 29, 12,
1495–519.
70. Franck Cochoy and Mylene Vabre, ‘From Stakeholders to Stakesliders: The
Resistible Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in a French Mining
Company’, Responsible Organisation Review, 2007, 2, 3, 40–54.
71. Aurelién Acquier, ‘CSR in Search of a Management Model: A Case of
Marginalization of a CSR Initiative’, in C. Bhattacharya et al. (eds.), Corporate
Responsibility and Global Business: Implications for Corporate and Marketing Strategy
(Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 107–32.
Part 3: Identity, Social Movement, and CSR Behaviours
72. R. Benabou and J. Tirole, ‘Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility’, Economica,
2010, 77, 1–19.
73. S. L. Brickson, ‘Organizational Identity Orientation: The Genesis of the Role of
the Firm and Distinct Forms of Social Value’, Academy of Management Review,
2007, 32, 3, 864–88.
74. T. J. Rowley and M. Moldoveanu, ‘When Will Stakeholder Groups Act? An Interest-
and Identity-Based Model of Stakeholder Group Mobilization’, Academy of Management
Review, 2003, 28, 2, 204–19.
75. F. Hond and F. Bakker, ‘Ideologically Motivated Activism: How Activist Groups
Influence Corporate Social Change Activities’, Academy of Management Review,
2007, 32, 3, 901–24.
Part 4: Reconceptualising CSR in Global Context
76. A. Scherer and G. Palazzo, ‘Towards a Political Conception of Corporate
Responsibility: Business and Society Seen from a Habermasian Perspective’, Academy
of Management Review, 2007, 32, 4, 1096–120.
77. D. L. Levy, ‘Political Contextation in Global Production Networks’, Academy
of Management Review, 2008, 33, 4, 943–63.
1740 pages in 3 vols , Hardcover