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Zusatztext Christian Olaf Christiansen offers the reader a well-researched, seminal historical study describing the general evolution of CSR in the American economy. Most important, he develops a novel descriptive concept - market reformism - that he uses synonymously with the term progressive business. ... This concept has the potential to be useful as a bounded instrumental device for business ethicists and management scholars in their future research endeavors. Informationen zum Autor Christian Olaf Christiansen (b. 1980) is Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Institute for Culture and Society. He was educated at the now former Department of Intellectual History and received his PhD degree in 2011, and is also educated in political science (Aarhus University) and philosophy (Hamburg University). Christian has published several peer-reviewed articles on topics such as the history of management thought, sociology, economic and sociological thinkers, and historiography of the history of economic ideas and has taught a wide range of topics in relation to humanistic understanding of organisations, teaching university students as well as professional managers. Klappentext This book offers a new intellectual history of ideas about reforming capitalism from within. Tracing the emergence of different value systems in the American context, the book offers a fresh perspective on debates about capitalism in the late 19th century and 20th century US Zusammenfassung This book offers a new intellectual history of ideas about reforming capitalism from within. Tracing the emergence of different value systems in the American context, the book offers a fresh perspective on debates about capitalism in the late 19th century and 20th century US Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: An Intellectual History of American Market Reformers and their Critics 1: O Father, Where Art Thou: The spirit of paternalistic capitalism in the age of the First Great Transformation (1870-1900) 2: A Corporation Lives in Society: The Invention of Managerial Capitalism in the Age of The New Deal (1935-1960s) 3: The New Man Wants Your Soul: Critiquing Managerial Capitalism (1945-1960s) 4: From the Golden Straitjacket to How to Do Well and Do Good: The New Spirit of Entrepreneurial Capitalism (1990s-2000s) 5: Corporations Are Not Set Up To Be Charities: Critiquing Entrepreneurial Capitalism (1990s-2000s) Conclusion: Progressive Business and its Critics in Retrospect ...
