Corporate social responsibility? : human rights in the new global economy / edited by Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : power, profit, and social trust / Charlotte Walker-Said -- Corporate social responsibility as controlled negotiation : the hierarchy of values / Charlotte Walker-Said -- Two cheers for CSR / Peter Rosenblum -- Assessing corporate social responsibility in the tobacco industry / Peter Benson -- Transparency, auditability, and the contradictions of CSR / Anna Zalik -- Virtuous language in industry and the academy / Stuart Kirsch -- Corporate social responsibility and the mandate to remedy : between empowerment and mitigating vulnerabilities / Caroline Kaeb -- An emerging history of CSR : the economic trials at Nuremberg (1945-49) / Jonathan Bush -- The impact of the war crimes tribunals on corporate liability for atrocity crimes under US law / David Scheffer -- Sanction and socialize : military command responsibility and corporate accountability for atrocities / Scott A. Gilmore -- Law, morality, and rational choice : incentives for CSR compliance / Caroline Kaeb -- Multistakeholder initiative anatomy : understanding institutional design and development / Amelia Evans -- The virtue of voluntarism : human rights, corporate responsibility, and UN Global Compact / Ursula Wynhoven, Yousuf Aftab -- Africa as CSR laboratory : twenty-first-century corporate strategy and state building / Charlotte Walker-Said -- CSR and corporate engagement with parties to armed conflicts / William Reno -- Corporate and state sustainability in Africa : the politics of stability in the postrevolutionary age / Charlotte Walker-Said -- Tender is the mine : law, shadow rule, and the public gaze in Ghana / Lauren Coyle -- Corporate social responsibility and latecomer industrialization in Nigeria / Richard Joseph, Kelly Spence, Abimbola Agboluaje.

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This volume presents corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a series of economic and political strategies that are currently shifting the focus of international human rights activism and signalling the rise of new forms of global governance. In as much as the work demonstrates the limitations of CSR and offers a critical perspective on corporate techniques of market domination, it also posits a future for CSR within the human rights movement.

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