Corporations and Citizenship (Business, Value Creation, and Society)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 8/28/2008
EAN 9780521612838, ISBN10: 0521612837
Paperback, 262 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
It is widely accepted that corporations have economic, legal, and even social roles. Yet the political role of corporations has yet to be fully appreciated. Corporations and Citizenship serves as a corrective by employing the concept of citizenship in order to make sense of the political dimensions of corporations. Citizenship offers a way of thinking about roles and responsibilities among members of polities and between these members and their governing institutions. Crane, Matten and Moon provide a rich and multi-faceted picture that explores three relations of citizenship – corporations as citizens, corporations as governors of citizenship, and corporations as arenas of citizenship for stakeholders – as well as three contemporary reconfigurations of citizenship – cultural (identity-based), ecological, and cosmopolitan citizenship. The book revolutionizes not only our understanding of corporations but also of citizenship as a principle of allocating power and responsibility in a political community.
List of figures
List of tables
Foreword
Preface
1. Introducing corporations and citizenship
Part I. Corporations and Citizenship Relationships
2. Corporations as citizens
3. Corporations as governments
4. Stakeholders as citizens
Part II. Corporations and Citizenship Reconfigurations
5. Citizenship identities and the corporation
6. Citizenship ecologies and the corporation
7. Citizenship, globalization and the corporation
8. Conclusions
References
Index.
Advance praise: 'This book offer a comprehensive, authoritative and thought provoking discussion of corporate citizenship, but it does more than explore a key theme in contemporary society. It reflects on whether corporations are transformative in and of political arenas, thus contributing to the continuing search for a political theory of the firm.' Wyn Grant, Professor of Politics, University of Warwick