This article takes stock of the discourse on ‘political CSR' (PCSR), reconsiders some of its assumptions, and suggests new directions for what we call ‘PCSR 2.0'. We start with a definition of PCSR, focusing on firms' contribution to public goods. We then discuss historical antecedents to...

The United Nations Global Compact – which is a Global Public Policy Network advocating ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labour standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption – has turned into the world’s largest corporate responsibility initiative. Although...

The United Nations Global Compact is with currently over 6,000 voluntary participants the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative. Although having made much progress towards its goals, the Compact still faces a lot of criticism. This paper first analyzes three critical allegations...

I explore the limits of corporate responsibility standards, for example Social Accountability 8000, the Global Reporting Initiative, the Fair Labor Association workplace code, by looking at these initiatives through Derrida’s aporias of justice as set out in ‘Force of Law: The “Mystical...

This chapter contrasts two major epistemological alternatives for Strategy as Practice (SAP) research. On the one hand, the building worldview leads to a detached, spectator’s apprehension of social situations which privileges a ‘knowledge about’ typically characterized by episteme...

This introductory essay argues that the use of the concept of deliberative democracy in CSR re-search needs to be theoretically extended. We review three developments that have recently oc-curred in deliberative democracy theory within political science and philosophy: (1) the concep-tualization...

This article distinguishes two approaches to study the political role of corporations. On the one hand, North American scholars have primarily understood the link between business and politics through the lens of corporate political activity (CPA) looking at how firms influence government...