Corporate social responsibility
Subtitle: comparative critiques
By: edited by K. Ravi Raman, Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Series: International political economy series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230220775
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Strange bedfellows? Critiquing corporate social responsibility  -- K. Ravi Raman; title: Corporate social responsibility in the era of capitalist globalization  -- Leslie Sklair; title: Opportunities and limits of corporate support for voluntary activity in Canada: evidence from voluntary organizations  -- paul Bowles and Fiona MacPhail; title: Indigenous and NGO alliances confronting corporate and state alliances: the case of Jabiluka uranium prospect  -- Katherine Trebeck; title: Romania, Ltd--a study of irresponsible conduct in human resources  -- Camelia Crisan; title: Extractive industries and stunted states: conflict, responsibility and institutional change in the Andes  -- Anthony Bebbington; title: From corporate accountability to shared responsibility: dealing with pollution in a Peruvian smelter town  -- Fabiana Li; title: Beyond bureaucracies? The struggle for self-determination and social responsibility in the Argentine workers' cooperatives  -- Alice Bryer; title: Business for peace, or peace for business? The role of corporate peace activism in the rise and fall of Sri Lanka's 2001-2004 peace process  -- Rajesh Venugopal; title: Commercial microfinance in India: loan angels or sharks?  -- D. Ajit and K. Ravi Raman; title: Corporate social responsibility, local livelihood and human rights : the case of Coca-Cola in India  -- K. Ravi Raman; title: Land acquisition: impossibility of corporate social responsibility  -- Pranab Kanti Basu; title: Shifting terrain of ethical trade: corporate and civil society engagement in South African agriculture  -- Stephanie Barrientos and Andrienetta Kritzinger; title: Corporate social responsibility and the problem of human rights: who is protecting whom? -- Ronnie D. Lipschutz.