How do corporations influence inter-national politics and global governance? Can the products and services they produce transform political realities? The recognition and understanding of such questions is important because they encourage the proactive management of social pressures associated...

I here advance a critical research agenda for the political perspective of corporate social responsibility (Political CSR). I argue that whilst the ‘Political' CSR literature is notable for both its conceptual novelty and practical importance, its development has been hamstrung by four...

This paper contextualises current debates over human rights and transnational corporations. More specifically, we begin by first providing the background to John Ruggie's appointment as ‘Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations...

I here distinguish dissensual from consensual corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the grounds that the former is more concerned to organize (or portray) corporate-civil society disagreement than it is corporate-civil society agreement. In doing so, I first conceive of consensual CSR; and...

Little attention has been paid to the importance of social media in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature. This deficit is redressed in the present paper through utilizing the notion of ‘citizenship arenas' to identify three dynamics in social media-augmented corporate-society...

The growing global prominence of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) makes it increasingly important to recognize that multinational corporations (MNCs) can be subject to conflicting human rights pressures at the transnational, national, and intra-organizational levels. We here construct a...

Radical change can be conceived in terms of the reconceiving of ontological distinctions, such as those separating humans from animals. In building on insights from French pragmatism, we suggest that, whilst no doubt very difficult, radical change can potentially be achieved by creating...

Etzioni has recently proposed that the success of Internet enabled commerce is surprising due to what I label the ‘trust in strangers' problem. In here responding to Etzioni, I argue that the ‘trust in strangers' problem effectively dissolves once it is recognized that current manifestations...

Google is a complex and complicated political beast with a significant, and often confusing, interest, in copyright matters. On the one hand, for example, Google is widely accused of profiting from piracy. On the other, Google routinely complies with what is rapidly approaching a billion...

To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme...