Business for society

by Gangi, Francesco

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Title Statements

Full title :Business for society / Francesco Gangi, Jérôme Méric, Rémi Jardat, and Lucia Michela Daniele.

Summary

"This book is about promoting corporate responsibility in its original meaning: businesses should have a positive impact on society, and society should not only be a lever of profit making. When we treat social responsibility as an external function of the core business, we are exposed to the worst. Business for Society seeks to redress the balance and promotes the original idea of corporate responsibility. This first book in the series of the same name sets the scene and presents the key theories across the various management disciplines to answer the following questions: "How, why and under what conditions can business act for society?". The book narrows and discusses examples of businesses that are making impressive strides in delivering positive impacts for society as well as their bottom line, but as the concept of corporate responsibility has become more mainstream in recent years, many organisations have adopted the term and reduced it to a marketing message. Areas covered include a historical perspective on the hijacking of business responsibility towards society, management knowledge and value, the Business for Society project against hijacking, accounting for Society, finance for Society and governance for Society and Democracy. The book will be of interest for scholars and students in the fields of corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and governance"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780429326509, 0429326505, 9781000711950, 1000711951, 1000711803, 9781000712100, 1000712109, 9781000711806
oclc:on1113416871
LC Classification:HD60
Dewey Decimal:658.4/08

1 A historical perspective on the hijacking of business responsibility towards society; 1.1 What does hijacking consist of in managerial studies?; The premises: recuperation of the critique of capitalism; Our position: critique of management is hijacked by dominant theories; 1.2 How agency theory hijacked managerialism; Evolution towards the managerial theory of the firm; A separation of ownership and control does not mean disregarding corporate social responsibility; 1.3 How does hijacking operate? The strengths of the dominant ideology and the weaknesses of representations of critical opposition in the field of science and society; Some critical theories in the management knowledge field show significant weaknesses, among them authors' desires to produce something 'compatible' with extant management theories; Critical theories are progressively distorted by their own supporters to meet the objectives of mainstream ones, no matter what fundamental contradictions such a process may engender; The constraints of management practice which could be invoked by critical theories about responsibility are neutralized, and instead turned into new assets for use at management's discretion; …

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