# Corporations and Citizenship: Business, Responsibility and Society (Business, Value Creation, and Society)

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/corporations-and-citizenship-business-responsibility-and-society-business-value-creation-and-society/
- Published: 2009-01-12T14:28:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**It is widely accepted that corporations have economic, legal, and even social 
roles. Yet the political role of corporations has yet to be fully appreciated. **

Corporations and Citizenship serves as a corrective by employing the concept of 
citizenship in order to make sense of the political dimensions of corporations. 
Citizenship offers a way of thinking about roles and responsibilities among members
of polities and between these members and their governing institutions.

Crane, Matten and Moon provide a rich and multi-faceted picture that explores three
relations of citizenship – corporations as citizens, corporations as governors of
citizenship, and corporations as arenas of citizenship for stakeholders – as well
as three contemporary reconfigurations of citizenship – cultural (identity-based),
ecological, and cosmopolitan citizenship.

The book revolutionises not only our understanding of corporations but also of citizenship
as a principle of allocating power and responsibility in a political community.

## Review

“This book offer a comprehensive, authoritative and thought provoking discussion
of corporate citizenship, but it does more than explore a key theme in contemporary
society. It reflects on whether corporations are transformative in and of political
arenas, thus contributing to the continuing search for a political theory of the
firm.”
**Wyn Grant**, Professor of Politics, University of Warwick

“A comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of the implications of understanding
the corporation as a citizen. It should stimulate fresh thinking about the political,
social and environmental responsibilities of the firm and the role it can and should
play in contemporary society.”
**David Vogel**, Haas School of Business, University
of California, Berkeley[](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/corporations-and-citizenship-business-responsibility-and-society-business-value-creation-and-society/void(0))