The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or…mehr
The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or the extent to which corporate responsibility challenges existing patterns of inequality rather than generating new geographies of inclusion and exclusion.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dinah Rajak is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development at the University of Sussex. She is the author of In Good Company. An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility (Stanford University Press 2011) and the co-founder of the Centre for New Economies of Development (www.responsiblebop.com).
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak Chapter 1. Theatres of Virtue: Collaboration Consensus and the Social Life of Corporate Social Responsibility Dinah Rajak Chapter 2. Virtuous Language in Industry and Academy Stuart Kirsch Chapter 3. Re-siting Corporate Responsibility: The Making of South Africa's Avon Entrepreneurs Catherine Dolan and Mary Johnstone-Louis Chapter 4. Power, Inequality and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment Industry Geert De Neve Chapter 5. Detachment as a Corporate Ethic: Materialising CSR in the Diamond Supply Chain Jamie Cross Chapter 6. Disconnect Development: Imagining Partnership and Experiencing Detachment in Chevron's Borderlands Katy Gardner Chapter 7. Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline José-María Muñoz and Philip Burnham Chapter 8. Collective Contradictions of Corporate Environmental Conservation Rebecca Hardin Chapter 9. Engineering Responsibility: Environmental Mitigation and the Limits of Commensuration in a Chilean Mining Project Fabiana Li Chapter 10. Global Concepts in Local Contexts: CSR as 'Anti-politics Machine' in the Extractive Sector in Ghana and Peru Johanna Sydow Afterword: Big Men and Business: Morality, Debt and the Corporation: A Perspective Robert J. Foster Index
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak Chapter 1. Theatres of Virtue: Collaboration Consensus and the Social Life of Corporate Social Responsibility Dinah Rajak Chapter 2. Virtuous Language in Industry and Academy Stuart Kirsch Chapter 3. Re-siting Corporate Responsibility: The Making of South Africa's Avon Entrepreneurs Catherine Dolan and Mary Johnstone-Louis Chapter 4. Power, Inequality and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment Industry Geert De Neve Chapter 5. Detachment as a Corporate Ethic: Materialising CSR in the Diamond Supply Chain Jamie Cross Chapter 6. Disconnect Development: Imagining Partnership and Experiencing Detachment in Chevron's Borderlands Katy Gardner Chapter 7. Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline José-María Muñoz and Philip Burnham Chapter 8. Collective Contradictions of Corporate Environmental Conservation Rebecca Hardin Chapter 9. Engineering Responsibility: Environmental Mitigation and the Limits of Commensuration in a Chilean Mining Project Fabiana Li Chapter 10. Global Concepts in Local Contexts: CSR as 'Anti-politics Machine' in the Extractive Sector in Ghana and Peru Johanna Sydow Afterword: Big Men and Business: Morality, Debt and the Corporation: A Perspective Robert J. Foster Index
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