This panel proceeds from the observation that the CSR movement has not yet articulated a coherent strategy for aligning social responsibility with the core objectives of corporate management. We argue for a more pragmatic approach that proceeds from the motivations and limitations of corporate...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Competing perspectives on corporate responsibility -- Contrasting stakeholder and shareholder theories -- Stakeholder theory and corporate social responsibility in a market economy -- A critique of stakeholder theory: the...

This paper takes both a conceptual and an empirical approach to answer the question as to how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be connected to the company's role as an agent of social value creation when it operates within an imperfect institutional framework of market competition. To...