What is the role of international business in this dilemma? How and why do international corporations maximize value beyond core strategy and partners through corporate responsibility? This informative and accessible resource expands the readers' understanding of the ways in which profit...

1. Introduction -- 2. Corporate power and the power of its critics -- 3. Anti-corporate protest and world culture : opposing or enacting globalization? -- 4. Framing the corporation -- 5. Mobilizing the consumer -- 6. Business and society : from ethical responsibility to organizational...

Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking. Although commitments to leadership, ethics, and...

This book adds a multi-disciplinary organizational perspective to the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of responsibility and accountability