# Corporate Social Responsibility

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/corporate-social-responsibility/
- Published: 2011-10-12T10:28:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Part of the Critical Perspectives on Business and Management series.**

Although the idea of social responsibility has a long and distinguished intellectual
pedigree, Corporate Social Responsibility (or ‘CSR’) has re-emerged during the last
fifteen years or so as a high-profile concept in both academia and business practice.

This revitalised interest has come about largely because of the development of the‘
markets for virtue’ that have institutionalised CSR in business practices in an 
unprecedented manner. CSR has achieved organisational distinctiveness within companies(
e.g. in managerial and board responsibilities); social and environmental reporting
requirements have dramatically increased; socially responsible investment funds 
have not only established themselves in their own right, but have also informed 
more mainstream investment criteria, particularly regarding social and environmental
risk; a CSR consultancy industry has emerged, along with various ‘vanguard groups’
and NGOs who seek not only to promote CSR, but also to bring critical perspectives
to bear and to raise CSR standards; and governments around the globe have encouraged
investment in CSR, better reporting of these activities, and the implementation 
of CSR initiatives that complement broader public policies.

As research in and around CSR blossoms as never before, this new four-volume collection
from Routledge’s acclaimed _Critical Perspectives on Business and Management_ series
meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing
and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by two scholars from Nottingham
University’s world-class International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility,
the collection gathers foundational and canonical work, together with innovative
and cutting-edge applications and interventions.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by 
the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual
context, _Corporate Social Responsibility_ is an essential work of reference. The
collection will be particularly useful as an essential database allowing scattered
and often fugitive material to be easily located.

It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar―
and sometimes overlooked―texts. For researchers, students, practitioners, and policy-
makers, it is as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

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