"Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective. A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related...

"Capitalism's agenda is the endless pursuit of private accumulation of socially produced wealth. In this system, the corporation is created by law; the corporation is meant to hide, to distract so that flesh and blood capitalists can do what they like. When the workings of the corporation are...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a nominal term clearly resonates with scholars and practitioners alike. As a scientific concept, however, it has often been criticized for its lack of definitional precision and poor measurement. In this paper we review and assess intensional and...