Sustainability, stakeholder governance, and corporate social responsibility / edited by Sinziana Dorobantu, Ruth V. Aguilera, Jiao Luo, Frances J. Milliken.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Front Cover; Sustainability, Stakeholder Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; About the Editors; About the Authors; Introduction: Contemplating the Connections between Sustainability, Stakeholder Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility; Ownership and Its Implications for Sustainability, Stakeholder Governance, and CSR; Stakeholder Alignment and Coalitions; Dynamic Evolution of Concepts and Industry Practices; Directions for Future Research; References

Part I. Ownership and Its Implications for Sustainability, Stakeholder Governance, and CSRStakeholders and Corporate Social Responsibility: An Ownership Perspective; Introduction; What is Ownership?; A Thorny Concept; A Judgment-based View of Ownership; Ownership and Stakeholder Theory; From a Shareholder to an Owner Perspective; Ownership and Stakeholder Theory; Ownership for All; Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility; Conclusions; Notes; References; Public versus Private Firms: Energy Efficiency, Toxic Emissions, and Abatement Spending; Introduction

Public versus Private: Does Ownership Affect Firm Behavior?Payoffs from Investments in Energy Efficiency and Pollution Abatement; Data and Method; Research Design; Data Description; Empirical Specification and Variables; Energy Efficiency; Toxic Emissions; Abatement Spending; Independent Variables; Results; Energy Efficiency; Toxic Emissions; Abatement Spending; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; The Interdependence of Public and Private Stakeholder Influence: A Study of Political Patronage and Corporate Philanthropy ... ; Introduction; Theory and Hypothesis

Stakeholder Pressure in Corporate PhilanthropyCorporate Philanthropy; Private and Public Stakeholders; Interdependence of Stakeholder Pressure; Effect of Political Patronage on Corporate Philanthropy; Data and Method; Empirical Context: Corporate Philanthropy in China; Data and Measures; Methods; Results; Robustness Tests; Analysis of Merged Samples; Discussion of Empirical Identification; Discussion and Conclusion; Theoretical Contributions; Limitations and Future Research; Notes; Acknowledgments; References

State-owned Multinationals and Drivers of Sustainability Practices: An Exploratory Study of National Oil CompaniesIntroduction; National Oil Companies, Stakeholders, and Performance Imperatives; The Importance of Sustainability in the Oil and Gas Industry; Sustainability Disclosure, Monitoring, and Performance Outcomes: The Key Drivers; Sustainability, Ownership, and Governance: The Internal Context; Sustainability and the Role of Energy in Domestic Markets: The National Context; Sustainability and the Benefits of Globalization: The International Context

The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical perspectives grounded in strategy, economics and sociology, employ various methodological approaches, and offer new arguments on the connections that exist between firms' decisions relating to sustainability, CSR, and the governance of their stakeholder relations.

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