Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Responsiveness in India

Informationen zum Autor Damien Krichewsky is Post-doctoral Fellow in Forum Internationale Wissenschaft at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He combines political sociology, economic sociology and sociology of organizations to study transformations of state-business relations in contemporary India. His research focuses in particular on how interplays between profit-driven economic activities and competing collective values and interests are observed and processed in India's democracy. Zusammenfassung Analyses the rapid growth in the significance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in relation to broader political and economic changes induced by India's 'pro-business' development strategy. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and maps; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. CSR, functional differentiation, and the problem of economic responsiveness; 3. Economic differentiation and the rise of India's 'embedded' corporate capitalism; 4. Increasing functional differentiation and the rise of corporate social responsibility; 5. CSR at work: economic responsiveness through risk management; 6. India's CSR public policies and the politics of economic responsiveness; 7. Conclusion; References; Index.

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• Authors: Damien Krichewsky, Damien (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Krichewsky, Damien (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn) Krichewsky
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108485364
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48536-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Corporate Governance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, 20th Century, 21st Century, India, Business ethics & social responsibility, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social issues & processes, economic growth, Political Economy, Sociology: work & labour, Business ethics and social responsibility, Social and ethical issues, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Sociology: work and labour, Construction & heavy industry, Construction and heavy industry