Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Intellectual Crisis of CSR

   • Peter Utting, José Carlos Marques

   Pages 1-25

3. CSR and Changing Modes of Governance: Towards Corporate Noblesse Oblige?

   • Colin Crouch

   Pages 26-49

4. Wal-Martization and CSR-ization in Developing Countries

   • Ngai-Ling Sum

   Pages 50-76

5. Corporate Social Responsibility in a Neoliberal Age

   • Paddy Ireland, Renginee G. Pillay

   Pages 77-104

6. Linking Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Policy in Zambia

   • Ndangwa Noyoo

   Pages 105-123

7. Business, Corporate Responsibility and Poverty Reduction

   • Michael Blowfield

   Pages 124-150

8. Transnational Corporations and Poverty Reduction: Strategic and Regional Variations

   • Rob van Tulder

   Pages 151-179

9. Cross-Sector Partnership as an Approach to Inclusive Development

   • Ruth Findlay-Brooks, Wayne Visser, Thurstan Wright

   Pages 180-202

10. Growing Sustainable Business in Eastern Africa: The Potential and Limits of Partnerships for Development

    • Catia Gregoratti

    Pages 203-224

11. Private Food Governance: Implications for Social Sustainability and Democratic Legitimacy

    • Doris Fuchs, Agni Kalfagianni

    Pages 225-247

12. Spaces of Contestation: The Governance of Industry’s Environmental Performance in Durban, South Africa

    • James Van Alstine

    Pages 248-275

13. Challenging Governance in Global Commodity Chains: The Case of Transnational Activist Campaigns for Better Work Conditions

    • Florence Palpacuer

    Pages 276-299

14. Back Matter

    Pages 300-309

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This is the first of two volumes that examine the changing nature of state-business relations. This book assesses the potential and limits of CSR in developing countries, by focusing on aspects that are often ignored in the CSR literature: historical experience, theoretical perspectives, and institutional and political dimensions of change.

• corporate social responsibility
• CSR
• Developing Countries
• development
• Governance
• Institution
• Policy
• poverty
• social policy
• sustainability
• work
• development policy

'This timely and important collection addresses many of the critical shortcomings in conventional approaches to CSR by emphasizing issues of power and the role of regulatory governance in promoting corporate responsibility, and restraining acts of corporate irresponsibility.' - Professor Peter Newell, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK

'Historically informed, theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded, this excellent volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent authors to provide a piercing examination of the practices, potential and limitations of CSR.' Professor David L. Levy, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

'Ongoing and recent crises have raised profound questions about the effectiveness and virtues of corporate social responsibility and deregulation. However, concerns about the difficulties and costs of developing adequate, appropriate and effective regulation continue to command attention. This volume sheds much light on these complex issues.' - Jomo Kwame Sundaram, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development

• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland

  Peter Utting

• Markets, Business and Regulation Programme, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland

  José Carlos Marques

Michael Blowfield, University of Oxford, UK Colin Crouch, Warwick Business School, UK Ruth Findlay-Brooks, University of Cambridge, UK Doris Fuchs, University of Münster, Germany Catia Gregoratti, Newcastle University, UK Paddy Ireland, University of Kent, UK Agni Kalfagianni, University of Stuttgart, Germany José Carlos Marques, McGill University, USA Ndangwa Noyoo, National Department of Social Development, South Africa Florence Palpacuer, University of Montpellier, France Renginee Pillay, University of Surrey, UK Ngai-Ling Sum, Lancaster University, UK Peter Utting, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) James Van Alstine, University of Leeds, UK Rob van Tulder, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Wayne Visser, Mannheim University, Germany Thurstan Wright, University of Cambridge, UK

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