disassociate issues of corporate governance from those of the firm's (social) responsibility [CSR] have been losing ground. Instead …, CSR can be taken to be an essential part of understanding a particular business enterprise. It is the merging of a …

This paper, which selectively focuses on the contested concept of Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR], forms part of …, and third, the knowledge paradigm. With regard to CSR, the paper explores the promises and shortcomings of the concept …) responsibilities on the other. On the basis of the review of the three paradigms of CSR over the course of more than one hundred years …

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is usually an area that does not lend itself easily to inter-company or cross …-country analysis. This paper is an attempt to provide some metrics of multinational CSR drawing on the recent literature on social …

- CSR) programmes. It uses as its method of analysis the emerging literature relating to the theory and measurement of …

corporate social responsibility (CSR) to engender voluntary action by employers to raise labour standards. Our evidence suggests … that a CSR-based approach faces considerable problems of implementation in this area, in large part because the legal … mechanisms which might underpin CSR ('reflexive law') have not yet been effectively developed. …

We present a model of CSR as a set of mechanisms for aligning corporate behaviour with the interests of society in … resistance to the linking of CSR with internal employee relations, and obstacles to shareholder engagement on this issue. …