Preface -- Prologue: a citizen of the world -- Building the future -- Glimpsing the future -- Bits and bytes -- Location, location, innovation -- Rethinking city hall -- Grounded visionaries -- The organization man revisited -- Confronting culture clash -- Balancing influence and innovation --...

This doctoral dissertation aims to understand how companies realize corporate responsibility—both how they perform corporate responsibility in particular local contexts and how they negotiate understandings of what corporate responsibility means. It builds on an inductive case study of the...