A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950

This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between corporations and their various social obligations over the very long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Chapters from emerging and established business historians assess the full range of social obligations that corp...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pettigrew, William A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Smith, David Chan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Σειρά:Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: The History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards a Comparative and Institutional Contribution
  • Chapter 2: Leadership and the Social Agendas of the Early Modern English Trading Corporations
  • Chapter 3: Socially Responsible and Responsive Business in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Chapter 4: Profit and Surety: The British Chartered Trading Companies and the State Before the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 5: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rise of the Non-profit Sector in America
  • Chapter 6: Local Concerns, Global Impact: The Social Structures and Influence of early Anglo-American Firms at Home and Abroad, 1815-1840
  • Chapter 7: The Distant Shareholder: Attenuated Investment and the Diffusion of Social Concerns
  • Chapter 8: Canadian Regional and National Business Elites in 1912: Local and Social Connections
  • Chapter 9: Trust, Reputation, and Regulation: Securities Markets in Europe, the US, and Japan before 1914
  • Chapter 10: Adolf Berle’s “Good Neighbour” Critique of US Corporate Interests in the Caribbean Basin
  • Chapter 11: Social(ist) Responsibility and Communist Management in Postwar Central Europe
  • Chapter 12: Afterword: The History (and Future History) of Socially Responsible Business. .