Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms - Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business (Hardcover, New)

Everyone agrees that firms should obey the law. But beyond the law -- beyond compliance with regulations -- do firms have additional social responsibilities to commit resources voluntarily to environmental protection? How should we think about firms sacrificing profits in the social interest? May they do so within the scope of their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders? Is the practice sustainable, or will the competitive marketplace render such efforts and their impacts transient at best? Furthermore, is the practice, however well intended, an efficient use of social and economic resources? And do some firms already behave this way?

Until now, public discussion has generated more heat than light on both the normative and positive questions surrounding corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the environmental realm. In Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms, some of the nation's leading scholars in law, economics, and business examine commonly accepted assumptions at the heart of current debates on CSR and provide a foundation for future research and policymaking.

Distinguished contributors to this book include Einer Elhauge and Mark Roe of Harvard Law School; John Donohue and Daniel Esty of Yale Law School; Paul Portney of Resources for the Future; Dennis Aigner of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Forest Reinhardt of Harvard Business School; David Vogel of the University of California, Berkeley; and Eric Orts of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

General

Imprint:	Resources for the Future Press (RFF Press)
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	April 2005
Editors:	Bruce L Hay • Robert N. Stavins • Richard H.K. Vietor
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-933115-02-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business ethics Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General Promotions
LSN:	1-933115-02-5
Barcode:	9781933115023

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