Visible Hands: Government Regulation and International Business Responsibility (Business, Value Creation, and Society)
Cambridge University Press, 11/2/2017
EAN 9781107104907, ISBN10: 1107104904
Hardcover, 266 pages, 23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
A growing number of states are regulating the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of domestic multinational corporations relating to overseas subsidiaries and suppliers. In this book, Jette Steen Knudsen and Jeremy Moon offer a new framework for analysing government-CSR relations: direct and indirect policies for CSR. Arguing that existing research on CSR regulation fails to address the growing role of the state in shaping the international practices of multinational corporations, the authors provide insight into the CSR issues that are addressed by government policies. Drawing on case studies, they analyse three key examples of CSR: non-financial reporting, ethical trade and tax transparency in extractive industries. In doing so, they propose a new research agenda of government and CSR that is relevant to scholars and graduate students in CSR, sustainability, political economy and economic sociology, as well as policymakers and consultants in international development and trade.
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.