Corporate social responsibility and regulatory governance
Subtitle: towards inclusive development?
By: edited by Peter Utting, José Carlos Marques
Contributors: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Series: International political economy series; International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780230576445
Other titles: CSR and regulatory governance
Description: "This is the first volume of two books on the changing nature of state-business relations. This volume explores CSR in a historical trajectory and development context; is theoretically informed and contributes to the body of critical thinking that calls for more comprehensive regulatory frameworks"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "UNRISD."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: CSR and changing modes of governance : towards corporate Noblesse Oblige?  -- Colin Crouch; title: Wal-Martization and CSR-ization in developing countries  -- Ngai-Ling Sum; title: Corporate social responsibility in a neoliberal age  -- Paddy Ireland and Renginee G. Pillay; title: Linking corporate social responsibility and social policy in Zambia  -- Ndangwa Noyoo; title: Business, corporate responsibility and poverty reduction  -- Michael Blowfield; title: Transnational corporations and poverty reduction : strategic and regional variations  -- Rob van Tulder; title: Cross-sector partnership as an approach to inclusive development  -- Ruth Findlay-Brooks, Wayne Visser and Thurstan Wright; title: Growing sustainable business in Eastern Africa : the potential and limits of partnerships for development  -- Catia Gregoratti; title: Private food governance : implications for social sustainability and democratic legitimacy  -- Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni; title: Spaces of contestation : the governance of industry's environmental performance in Durban, South Africa  -- James van Alstine; title: Challenging governance in global commodity chains : the case of transnational activist campaigns for better work conditions -- Florence Palpacuer.