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"There has been increasing pressure from several parts of civil society for greater transparency around corporate political action. This volume puts forward a new norm of corporate political responsibility (CPR) to go alongside corporate social responsibility, exploring what it means and what will be required to make that norm a reality"--
List of contents
Section I. Foundations of CPR: Metrics for Disclosure and Good Governance: 1. The meaning of CPR Thomas P. Lyon; 2. Targeting private sector influence in politics: corporate accountability as a risk and governance problem Bruce F. Freed, William S. Laufer and Karl J. Sandstrom; 3. Measuring corporate political responsibility Thomas P. Lyon and William Mandelkorn; Section II. Transparency: Causes and Consequences: 4. What drives firms to disclose their political activity? Edward T. Walker; 5. Promise and peril: lessons from shareholder reactions to corporate political activity disclosure Timothy Werner; Section III. Accountability: Linking CSR, Employee Relations, and CPR: 6. Responsible lobbyists? CSR commitments and the quality of corporate parliamentary testimony in the UK Alvise Favotto, Kelly Kollman and Fraser McMillan; 7. License to give: the relationship between organizational reputation and stakeholders' support for corporate political activity Samantha Darnell and Mary-Hunter McDonnell; 8. Multinational companies as responsible political actors in global business: challenges and implications for human resource management Andreas Georg Scherer and Christian Voegtlin; Section IV. Responsibility: CPR and Climate: 9. Measuring climate policy alignment: a study of the S&P 100 Yamika Ketu and Steven Rothstein; 10. From Kyoto to Paris: business and climate change David Vogel; 11. Disclosure of political responsibility: the case of climate change Magali A. Delmas and Henry L. Friedman; Section V. Implementing CPR: Opportunities and Challenges: 12. Practitioner views of CPR: towards a new social contract Elizabeth A. Doty.
