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This book offers a new framework for analysing government policies relating to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in multinational corporations: direct and indirect policies for CSR. It is a must read for scholars and graduate students in CSR, sustainability, political economy and economic sociology, as well as policymakers and consultants in international development and trade.
List of contents
1. Government and CSR: hands visible and invisible; 2. National government and international corporate social responsibility; 3. Government and corporate social responsibility: from domestic to international spheres; 4. Government and non-financial reporting: public policy in Denmark; 5. Governments and ethical trade: the ethical trading initiative and responses to Rana Plaza; 6. Governments and tax transparency: the extractive industries transparency initiative, Dodd-Frank, and the European Accounting Act amendments; 7. Conclusion: visible hands for responsible international business.
About the author
Jette Steen Knudsen is Professor of Policy and International Business at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Massachusetts. She previously worked as a Professor of Political Science at Copenhagen University and before that at Copenhagen Business School, and she headed a government think-tank, the Copenhagen Centre for CSR. She has published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Policy and Politics and Regulation and Governance.Jeremy Moon is Velux Professor of Corporate Sustainability at Copenhagen Business School. He has published extensively on corporate social responsibility, including the edited textbook Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication and Governance (2017), which is also published by Cambridge University Press, and the Very Short Introduction to CSR (2014). He was founding Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, University of Nottingham.
Summary
This book offers a new framework for analysing government policies relating to corporate social responsibility (CSR) in multinational corporations: direct and indirect policies for CSR. It is a must read for scholars and graduate students in CSR, sustainability, political economy and economic sociology, as well as policymakers and consultants in international development and trade.
