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Over the last two decades there has been a notable increase in the
number of corporate governance codes and principles, as well as a
range of improvements in structures and mechanisms. Despite this,
corporate governance failed to prevent a widespread default of
fiduciary duties of corporate boards and managerial
responsibilities in the finance industry, which contributed to the
2007 2010 global financial crisis. This book brings together
leading scholars from North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the
Middle East to provide fresh and critical analytical insights on
the systemic failures of corporate governance linked to the global
financial crisis. Contributors draw from a range of disciplines to
demonstrate the severe limitations of the dominant corporate
governance framework and its associated market-oriented approach.
They provide suggestions on how the governance problems could be
tackled to prevent or mitigate any future financial crisis and
explore new directions for post-crisis corporate governance
research and reforms.
European approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are
supposed to be largely different from those in other continents
like America, Asia, and Africa. Yet, European approaches to CSR are
not a single and static one, but vary across and within national
states and shift over time. This edited volume aims at exploring
the uniqueness and complexity of European CSR approaches,
perspectives, and practices through a critical lens. It contributes
to existing understanding of European CSR by addressing the
frontier CSR issues in the current state at the EU, national and
institutional levels. Specifically, the volume critically examines
the macro-level CSR frameworks, policies, and trends and their
impact on CSR practices at the micro-level, including the roles of
EU and national governments in shaping the CSR landscape in similar
and different ways. It also analyses how various stakeholder groups
and business sectors and firms across major European countries
perceive, interpret and approach CSR in a dynamic way. Contributors
of this book are experts mainly from Western and Eastern European
countries and thus provide rich experiences, fresh insights, and
deep understanding of the critical state of CSR in Europe.
As a response to ongoing economic, social and environmental crises,
many private actors have enlarged their definition of 'value' to
include environmental and social elements. Such practices, however,
appear incompatible with the current epistemological structure of
academic financial discourse. This paradox challenges us to
reconsider the foundations of modern finance, particularly the
dominant role of shareholders. The volume argues there is a need to
turn the established order upside down. Studies in economics and
finance have to be embedded in environmental and social welfare to
answer the challenges we face, and there is a need for a radical
break with the methodological individualism that dominates
economics, management and (especially) finance. It is our
responsibility to question social welfare when it is defined only
as maximising shareholder value. Should we instead promote a
substitute to the shareholder? How should we (re)define the concept
of value? This volume serves as a stepping stone for rethinking
academic finance, and attempts to carve out innovative paths for
financial research in the 21st century.
"This book is about the management of social capital processes as
they are accomplished-understood, experienced and shaped-by
owner-managers. The aim of the book is to develop a deeper
understanding of these management processes, and thereby to
contribute to a greater congruence between lived social capital
perspectives and experiences, and theoretical and empirical
literature. The book argues that social capital processes are
context dependent and hence cannot be fully understood within an
economic understanding of rationality. It follows that claims for
the universality of the economic way of looking at life, and for
looking at social capital processes are over-stated. Predicated on
this insight the book investigates economic notions of rationality,
as well as other perspectives on rationality in the management of
social capital processes."
This book offers a groundbreaking collection of chapters in the
emerging field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Communication. After outlining a theoretical framework, the themed
sections cover: (1) Communication in CSR: The Communicative Role,
Strategy and Evaluation; (2) CSR Discourses and Corporate
Reporting; (3) CSR Online Communication and Social Media; (4) The
Role of Stakeholders in CSR Communication: Managers, Employees and
Consumers. The 18 chapters explore the theory, practice and issues
involved in communicating CSR and make for fascinating reading. An
international approach is taken with leading academics and
consultants from Australia, Germany, UK, the Netherlands, Poland,
Singapore, USA, Sweden, Switzerland and France. The anonymously
peerreviewed chapters are theoretically informed and supported with
practicebased realworld insights. Rich and detailed they describe,
explain and analyse the "why", "what", "when" and "how" of
communicating about CSR. As well as furthering theory and academic
debate the book will help inform policy and practice. Leading edge,
topical and current this book will be essential reading for
corporate communicators, business practitioners, academics,
students and all those interested in the subjects of CSR and
Communication.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly
heated topic since the 1980s. But there are severe limitations with
the concept of CSR and the effectiveness of CSR practices.
Addressing such limitations, this volume proposes that the concept
of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) offers a better
theoretical platform to avoid the vagueness, ambiguity,
arbitrariness and mysticism of CSR. It challenges conventional
modes of thinking, unveils the CSR mask of business practices and
redirects public attention to the core issues of CSR. This
collective work sets up an initial theoretical framework for the
subject of CSI and examines the fundamental reasons for
irresponsibility in and beyond a corporate context. Rooted in
theory and practice it seeks to understand how boundaries of CSR
and CSI have been constructed in society, and explores some
systemic and structural issues of CSI in practice.
The recent global financial crisis has indicated that the
conventional dominant paradigm in finance is unable to cope with
the problems of financial systems, markets, and behaviour of
financial institutions, and failed to understand the proper role of
finance in society and the economic system as a whole. Drawing on
the recent movements of corporate social responsibility, socially
responsible investing and sustainable development, this volume goes
further to examine the ongoing making of financial reality towards
social responsibility and sustainability, and aims at a better
understanding of finance as a collective construct and endeavour
embedded in societal context. Bringing together leading scholarly
thinking, this collection opens new avenues of comprehending
corporate social responsibility, reveals mechanisms and strategies
in shaping the reality of responsible finance, searches alternative
approaches towards financial sustainability, and explores new
thinking of coping with complex financial choice and financial
risks. Moving away from the conventional financial paradigm, this
volume demonstrates paradigm shifting in the financial world and
provides fresh insights on how we may reshape the financial reality
to enable societal betterment and prevent any future financial
crisis.
Most people have believed that corporate social responsibility
(CSR) played a significant role in the 2008 global financial
crisis. However, little research has been done to reflect on the
underlying issues of CSR in connection to the financial crisis.
This collection brings together leading scholarly thinking to
understand why CSR failed to prevent the global financial crisis,
how corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) contributed to the
financial crisis, and how we may reframe CSR or improve CSR
frameworks to help prevent or mitigate any future financial and
economic crises. This volume concentrates on three key themes: A
critical review of the role of CSR played in the financial crisis
and its underlying theses; A unique understanding of the
institutionalization of CSR in codified rules and the application
of CSR into business and management; and; An in-depth exploration
of the future direction of CSR as post-crisis agenda.
Over the last two decades there has been a notable increase in the
number of corporate governance codes and principles, as well as a
range of improvements in structures and mechanisms. Despite this,
corporate governance failed to prevent a widespread default of
fiduciary duties of corporate boards and managerial
responsibilities in the finance industry, which contributed to the
2007-10 global financial crisis. This book brings together leading
scholars from North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle
East to provide fresh and critical analytical insights on the
systemic failures of corporate governance linked to the global
financial crisis. Contributors draw from a range of disciplines to
demonstrate the severe limitations of the dominant corporate
governance framework and its associated market-oriented approach.
They provide suggestions on how the governance problems could be
tackled to prevent or mitigate any future financial crisis and
explore new directions for post-crisis corporate governance
research and reforms.
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