The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-071-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Dislocations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dolan, Catherine

Rajak, Dinah

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rajak, Dinah
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).

Dolan, Catherine
Catherine Dolan is on the faculty of anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and holds fellowships at James Martin Institute, Green Templeton College and Said Business School, all at University of Oxford. Her research centres on contemporary forms of moral capitalism, including Fair Trade, inclusive development and bottom of the pyramid business, in Africa. She is a co-founder of the Centre for New Economies of Development (www.responsiblebop.com).

Catherine Dolan is on the faculty of anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and holds fellowships at James Martin Institute, Green Templeton College and Said Business School, all at University of Oxford. Her research centres on contemporary forms of moral capitalism, including Fair Trade, inclusive development and bottom of the pyramid business, in Africa. She is a co-founder of the Centre for New Economies of Development (www.responsiblebop.com).