Corporate Social Responsibility: Academic Insights and Impacts

Foreword; Preface; Academic Insights and Impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Introduction; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Editors; List of Contributors; Part I: Practical Corporate Social Responsibility; Chapter 1: Imagined Communities Incorporated: Corporate Social Responsibility and Value Creation in a Globalised World; 1.1 Introduction: An Outsider Looking In; 1.2 Corporate Social Responsibility: Good Business, Doing Good or a Power Play?; 1.3 Imagined Communities Inc.; 1.4 Corporate Communications: Print Media and Beyond. 1.5 Back to the Beginning: The Corporate Appropriation and Reinvention of the Past1.6 A Genealogy of Corporate Belonging; 1.7 Mapping the Moral Terrain; 1.8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2: Financial Capabilities and Poverty Alleviation: The Role of Responsible Financial Decisions; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Socio-Economic Transformation and Financial Capabilities; 2.3 Financial Capabilities and Financial Decision Making: The Role of Adaptive Heuristics; 2.4 Institutional Approach to Building Responsible Financial Decisions; 2.5 Heuristic-Driven Economic Socialization. 2.6 Heuristics Driven Financial Education2.7 Heuristic-Driven Financial Product Design; 2.8 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: From Weak to Strong CSR: The Contribution of New Categories in the Account(ing) Ability of EoC Industrial Parks; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Theoretical Framework of the Economy of Communion and EoC Enterprises; 3.3 The Governance of EoC Companies; 3.4 The Accountability of Communion; 3.5 The EoC Industrial Poles: A ``New ́́Type of Network; 3.6 The Italian Industrial Park: The Lionello Bonfanti Pole in Incisa Val dÁrno (Florence); 3.7 Conclusions; References. Chapter 4: Public Interests and Corporate Obligations: The Challenge from Consequentialism4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Setting the Scene: Stakeholders and Non-Stakeholders; 4.3 The Proper Valuing of Relationships Argument; 4.3.1 The Objection from Contractarianism; 4.3.2 The Objection from Consequentialism; 4.4 The Different Moral Levels Argument; 4.5 Consequentialism and the Stakeholder Approach to CSR; 4.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Agribusiness CSR Practices on the Establishment of Underdeveloped Supply Chains: Evidence from Tanzania; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Transaction Cost Economic Theory. 5.3 CSR and Food Value Chain in Africa5.4 Methodology; 5.5 Findings; 5.5.1 Products Availability; 5.5.2 Market Linkage; 5.5.3 Product Safety and Standards; 5.6 Economic Responsibility; 5.6.1 Building Capacity of Suppliers; 5.7 Discussion and Policy Implications; 5.7.1 Policy Implications; References; Part II: Sociological Corporate Social Responsibility; Chapter 6: A Sociological Approach to the Problem of Competing CSR Agendas; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Sociological Contributions to Understanding CSR; 6.3 The Problem of Competing Agendas of Responsibility.