Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Governance : Global Perspectives.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction. Responsibility, accountability and governance: the presumed connections with the state, the market and the civil society and an overview -- Part 1: Emerging governance structures, risks and networking -- 1 Broadening the notion of governance from the organisation to the domain: a study of municipal water systems in Canada -- 2 Regulation, responsibility and representation: challenges for intra-organisational communication -- 3 Multi-stakeholder collaborative processes, regulation and governance: two Canadian case studies -- 4 Levels of new governance from a corporate perspective -- 5 A framework for examining accountability and value for money in the UK's Private Finance Initiative -- 6 Risk regulation regimes in aviation: were the chips ever really down in the UK's management of Y2K? -- Part 2: Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder theory -- 7 Seeking global solutions for the common good: a new world order and corporate social responsibility -- 8 Toward better governance: the stakeholder partnership framework -- 9 Adding the stakeholder value: governance convergence in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors -- Part 3: Empirical studies on emerging governance structures and corporate social responsibility -- 10 Governance via collective learning between corporate and public actors -- 11 CSR in the Scandinavian countries: a review of voluntary versus regulated -- 12 Governance and management of protected areas in Canada and Mexico -- 13 Putting governance to work in a US company: the Carris experience -- 14 Networks for environmental management: involving public and quasi-public organisations for market development towards sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Part 4: Corporate governance and its implications for regulators and civil society -- 15 Corporate governance models: international legal perspectives -- 16 Conflicting and conflating interests in the regulation and governance of the financial markets in the United States -- 17 A systemic view of US government in market governance: lessons learned from the California electricity crisis -- 18 Good governance and anti-corruption mobilisation: do Russian NGOs have any say? -- Part 5: Multinational companies and their implications for the new governance structures, regulators and civil society -- 19 NGO-business collaborations and the law: sustainability, limitations of law, and the changing relationship between companies and NGOs -- 20 Strategic options for multinational corporate programmes in international corporate social responsibility -- 21 Concluding remarks on emerging governance structures and practices: the state, the market and the voice of civil society -- Abbreviations -- About the contributors -- Index.

Seeks to explore this "missing link" between Corporate Social Responsibility and governance mechanisms that are capable of embracing true stakeholder accountability. This book provides analysis of the complex relationships between the state, the market and civil society in the development of CSR, accountability and sustainable development.

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