Legal Approaches and Corporate Social Responsibility - Towards a Llewellyns Law-Jobs Approach

List of contents

1. Introduction- Viewing Csr Through Legal Lens? 2. Defining Corporate Social Responsibility 3. Legitimacy Of Power As Core to CSR 4 .Law, Structure and Legitimacy 5. Why Not Corporate Law? 6. Proposing A Law-Jobs Approach 7. Exemplifying A Law-Jobs Approach – Shell In Nigeria

About the author

Adaeze Okoye is a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Summary

From the late 20th Century, a catalogue of high profile disasters and controversies has drawn attention to the changing relationship between corporations and society. This is taking place against the context of globalisation and this change has become the driving force for demands that corporations become socially responsible. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has therefore emerged as a concept which attempts to encapsulate these demands for social responsibility. Yet at the heart of CSR is the debate about the role and relevance of law.
This book will explore the proposition that CSR is a valid legal enquiry and will suggest a law-jobs approach which offers a potential general analytical perspective for examining such fluid concepts such as CSR in law. This approach is innovative because of the insistence of some users of CSR on placing law outside the parameters of CSR or giving it a very limited role; however, Okoye argues here that the very nature of CSR as seeking legitimacy for corporate power pushes to the fore the question of what role law can play. Law is an essential and important aspect of legitimacy and thus this work explores a legal theoretical approach that holds potential for a legal framework of CSR.
This interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to students and scholars of corporate law and business studies in general.

Product details

• Authors: Adaeze Okoye, Adaeze (Canterbury Christ Church University Okoye, Okoye Adaeze
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780367075477
• ISBN: 978-0-367-07547-7
• No. of pages: 235
• Series: Routledge Research in Corporate Law; Routledge Research in Corporate Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; LAW / General, LAW / Corporate, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Law, Business ethics & social responsibility, Business ethics and social responsibility, Company law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Company, commercial and competition law: general