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Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism? - Towards Social Accountability (Hardcover)
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Corporate Power and Responsible Capitalism? - Towards Social Accountability (Hardcover)
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Major scandals, disasters and crises have turned shareholder
capitalism, so recently trumpeted as among contemporary society's
most successful achievements, into one of its most worrying problem
children. In this highly readable account Bryn Jones rehearses in
detail the negative consequences of the growing economic and
political power of the modern corporation. He then reviews a wide
range of alternative ways of organizing a market economy, examples
of which are found in a variety of modern economies.' - Colin
Crouch, University of Warwick Business School, UK and Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Societies, GermanyCan business
corporations be made more responsible for their actions? Abuses of
corporate power, its responsibilities and scandals, pervade
political, academic and public debates. In this important book,
Bryn Jones locates the sources of this 'corporate over-reach' in
key features of the share-traded corporations which dominate global
economies and national societies. Focussing on the disembedding of
businesses from their social roots, he assesses alternative types
of business system and prospects for shifting from 'social
responsibility' to social accountability. Split into three parts,
this book brings together a multitude of ideas and evidence from
different fields to address: context and history, the social
embedding and disembedding of business systems, and the pursuit and
pitfalls of responsible capitalism. It concludes by recommending
potential models for reform in the UK. Undergraduate and
postgraduate students in politics, sociology, public policy and
management programs will find this book both accessible and useful
for its summaries of diverse literatures on business-society
relations. The points of discussion will also be valuable for media
commentators on business and politics, policy makers in the areas
of business-society relations and campaigners and political
activists.
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