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The end of corporate social responsibility: crisis and critique

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles Sage 2013Description: xvi, 125 pISBN:
  • 9781849205160
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.408 F5E6
Summary: A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related activity aims to gain legitimacy from consumers and employees, and therefore furthers the exploitative and colonizing agenda of the corporation. By examining CSR in the context of the political economy of late capitalism, the book puts the emphasis back on the fact that most large corporations are fundamentally driven by profit maximization, making CSR initiatives merely another means to this end. Rather than undermining or challenging unsustainable corporate practices CSR is exposed as an ideological practice that actually upholds the prominence of such practices. (www.sagepub.in/books/Book234489?siteId=sage-india&prodTypes=Books&q=9781849205160&pageTitle=productsSearch)
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A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related activity aims to gain legitimacy from consumers and employees, and therefore furthers the exploitative and colonizing agenda of the corporation. By examining CSR in the context of the political economy of late capitalism, the book puts the emphasis back on the fact that most large corporations are fundamentally driven by profit maximization, making CSR initiatives merely another means to this end. Rather than undermining or challenging unsustainable corporate practices CSR is exposed as an ideological practice that actually upholds the prominence of such practices.
(www.sagepub.in/books/Book234489?siteId=sage-india&prodTypes=Books&q=9781849205160&pageTitle=productsSearch)

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