Andreas Georg Scherer - Böcker

The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. This exciting and important Handbook provides a unique forum to discuss the consequences of the social and political mandate of business firms and examines the implications of these consequences for the theory of the firm. Leading academics have been invited from various disciplines such as management studies, economics, sociology, legal studies and political science to evaluate the concept of corporate citizenship and to analyze the role of private business in global governance and the production of global public goods. The Handbook is structured in seven sections:theoretical perspectives on corporate citizenship contemporary issues and challenges of global business regulationactors and institutions of global business regulationdisciplinary perspectives on corporate citizenshipimplications for management theory building critical perspectives on corporate citizenshipconclusions.This Handbook will be a significant read for academics, postgraduate students and managers interested in the field of corporate citizenship, regulation and corporate responsibility across the social sciences.

The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. This exciting and important Handbook provides a unique forum to discuss the consequences of the social and political mandate of business firms and examines the implications of these consequences for the theory of the firm. Leading academics have been invited from various disciplines such as management studies, economics, sociology, legal studies and political science to evaluate the concept of corporate citizenship and to analyze the role of private business in global governance and the production of global public goods. The Handbook is structured in seven sections:theoretical perspectives on corporate citizenship contemporary issues and challenges of global business regulationactors and institutions of global business regulationdisciplinary perspectives on corporate citizenshipimplications for management theory building critical perspectives on corporate citizenshipconclusions.This Handbook will be a significant read for academics, postgraduate students and managers interested in the field of corporate citizenship, regulation and corporate responsibility across the social sciences.

In der globalisierten Welt gilt die klassische Arbeitsteilung zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik nicht mehr. Die Unternehmen unterliegen keiner zentral definierten politischen Rahmenordnung, vielmehr können sie unter alternativen Rechtssystemen nach ökonomischen Gesichtspunkten auswählen und so das Primat der nationalstaatlichen Politik aushebeln. Zugleich sind die transnationalen Institutionen, wie etwa die UNO oder die ILO, nicht in der Lage, die von ihnen formulierten Regeln durchzusetzen. Vor diesem Hintergrund muss die Frage nach der Verantwortung der Unternehmen��gestellt werden. In kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ökonomismus und dem Postmodernismus versucht dieses Buch, eine republikanische Perspektive zu entwickeln: Die Unternehmen dürfen sich nicht mehr ausschließlich auf ihre ökonomische Rolle zurückziehen, sondern müssen sich als verantwortliche politische Akteure an der Fortentwicklung der Rahmenordnung in den entstehenden Politiknetzwerken beteiligen.