The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility
Crane, Andrew George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics, Schulich School of Business at York Unviersity, Toronto
McWilliams, Abagail Professor in the College of Business, University of Illinois, Chicago
Matten, Dirk Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto
Moon, Jeremy Professor and Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School
Siegel, Donald S. Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of California, Riverside
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921159-3
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




9 Much Ado about Nothing
A Conceptual Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211593.003.0009

J. (Hans) van Oosterhout
Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens
Abstract: Introduction – Some Distinctions Relevant to Concept Formation and Evaluation – A Short Biography of the CSR Concept – CSR Theory and the Intension of the CSR Concept – CSR Measurement and the Extension of the Notion of CSR – Is CSR Conceptually Epiphenomenal? – Summary and Conclusion

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J. (Hans) van Oosterhout is a Professor of Corporate Governance and Responsibility at RSM Erasmus University. He holds an MA in Political Science from Leiden University, and a Ph.D. in Organization Theory from Erasmus University. His research interests pertain to the positive and normative theory of organizations and institutions, corporate governance, and the relationship between economic, legal, and political institutions in general.

Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens is Professor of Organization Theory at RSM Erasmus University. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from RSM Erasmus University (2001). Research interests include Business Ethics and Positive and Normative Organization Theory. Pursey Heugens has published some 30 articles in journals like the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Organization, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Management Studies. He serves on the editorial board of six scholarly journals, and is a representative at large of the Academy of Management's Social Issues in Management Division.
 
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Full Book Contents
I Introduction
1 The Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda
II Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
2 A History of Corporate Social Responsibility
3 Corporate Social Responsibility Theories
4 The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
5 Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance
III Critiques of Corporate Social Responsibility
6 Principals and Agents
7 Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of the Firm—On the Denial of Politics*
8 Critical Theory and Corporate Social Responsibility*
9 Much Ado about Nothing
IV Actors and Drivers
10 Top Managers as Drivers for Corporate Social Responsibility
11 Socially Responsible Investment and Shareholder Activism*
12 Consumers as Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility
13 Corporate Social Responsibility, Government, and Civil Society
V Managing Corporate Social Responsibility
14 Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
15 Stakeholder Theory
16 Responsibility in the Supply Chain
17 Corporate Social Responsibility
VI Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Context
18 Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility
19 Corporate Social Responsibility and Theories of Global Governance
20 Corporate Social Responsibility in a Comparative Perspective
21 Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries
VII Future Perspectives and Conclusions
22 Educating for Responsible Management
23 Corporate Social Responsibility
24 Senior Management Preferences and Corporate Social Responsibility
25 The Transatlantic Paradox
26 Spirituality as a Firm Basis for Corporate Social Responsibility
27 Future Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility*
28 Conclusion
Index
 
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