A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950
Editors: Pettigrew, William A., Smith, David Chan (Eds.)
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- About this book
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This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between corporations and their various social obligations over the very long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Chapters from emerging and established business historians assess the full range of social obligations that corporations held historically. By adopting an innovative methodological approach that is long-term and comparative, this book offers a challenge to the literature on corporate history and will be of interest to researchers and academics in the field of finance and business history.
- About the authors
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William A. Pettigrew is a Reader in History at the University of Kent, UK, the founding Director of the Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce (PEIC) and the Lead Investigator of a Leverhulme Trust grant project on England’s seventeenth-century overseas trading companies. He is the author of Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752 (2013).
David Chan Smith is an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is currently researching the history of corporate social responsibility and beginning his next project on Matthew Boulton, innovation during the Industrial Revolution, and the emergence of global carbon networks. His first book, Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws (2014), is a study of the early modern common law.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards a Comparative and Institutional Contribution
Pages 1-31
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Leadership and the Social Agendas of the Seventeenth-Century English Trading Corporation
Pages 33-63
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Socially Responsible and Responsive Business in Seventeenth-Century England
Pages 65-93
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Profit and Surety: The British Chartered Trading Companies and the State
Pages 95-116
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rise of the Non-profit Sector in America
Pages 117-135
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950
- Editors
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- William A. Pettigrew
- David Chan Smith
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-60146-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-60146-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-60145-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86789-2
- Series ISSN
- 2662-5164
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 313
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
- Topics
