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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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 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. .
