Corporate Social Responsibility

James Weber is a Professor of Business Ethics and Management and is currently the Executive Director of the Institute of Ethics in Business at Duquesne University. He received the Sumner Marcus Award for outstanding contribution of service to the field in 2013 from the Academy of Management's SIM Division. A prolific author with publications in major academic journals and co-author of a market-leading textbook, Dr. Weber also served on the editorial boards of Business Ethics: A European Review, Journal of Moral Psychology, International Journal of Ethics Education, Encyclopedia for Business Ethics and Society (SAGE Publications) and Business Ethics Quarterly.David M. Wasieleski is a Professor of Business Ethics and Management at Duquesne University and Research Chair in Operational CSR and Ethics at the ICN Business School in Nancy, France. Dr. Wasieleski has published in many major academic journals. He also is an Associate Editor (Ethics Track) for Business & Society, Section Editor for Behavioral Business Ethics for the Journal of Business Ethics, and acquired additional editorial board experience at the Journal of Moral Psychology and as Associate Editor of the SAGE Business Ethics Encyclopedia. He has served as Associate Editor for the SIM Division at the Academy of Management and as the North American Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics Education.

This volume compiles 13 essays on corporate social responsibility. Researchers working in business and management fields in Europe, North America, and Asia discuss its evolution, concepts, and current and emerging issues; corporate social responsibility in Japan, South Korea, India, China, and Belgium; corporate social responsibility as practiced from various perspectives, such as the Benefit Movement and benefit corporations, scientific management, political policies, and the relationship between corporate ecological sustainability and corporate financial performance, as well as the pace of corporate social responsibility implementation; and the role of corporate responsibility in the future, including the move towards corporate system responsibility, and the need for a new socioeconomic narrative for system change.

• Chapter 1. Corporate Social Responsibility: From Founders to Millennials; William C. FrederickChapter 2. Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Current Concepts, Research, and Issues; Archie B. Carroll and Jill A. BrownChapter 3. Corporate Social Responsibility Across Asia: A Review of Four Countries; D. Kirk Davidson, Kanji Tanimoto, Laura Gyung Jun, Shallini Teneja, Pawan K. Teneja and Juelin YinChapter 4. Legislated CSR: A Brief Introduction; Rajat Panwar, Shweta Nawani, and Vivek PandeyChapter 5. Social Responsibility within Brussels Municipalities: An Exploratory Study; Nikolay A. Dentchev, Philippe Eiselein and Thomas KayaertChapter 6. Much Ado About Nothing: The Glacial Pace of CSR Implementation in Practice; Daina MazutisChapter 7. Safeguarding Corporate Social Responsibility: The Benefit Movement; Caddie Putnam RankinChapter 8. Taylor Won: The Triumph of Scientific Management and Its Meaning for Business and Society; Vanessa Hill and Harry Van Buren IIIChapter 9. Aligning Adverse Activities? Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Activity; Kathleen Rehbein, Frank den Hond and Frank G. A. de BakkerChapter 10. What We Know about the Economic Payoffs of Corporate Ecological Sustainability; Edeltraud Guenther, Timo Busch, Jan Endrikat, Thomas Guenther and Marc OrlitzkyChapter 11. Getting from Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate System Responsibility: Toward a Dialogic Process for Network Governance; Jerry M. CaltonChapter 12. Beyond CSR to System Change: Creating a New Socio-Economic Narrative; Sandra WaddockChapter 13. Corporate Social Responsibility Scholarship: Retrospect and Prospect; Donna J. Wood