Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Rajak, Dinah

Title In Good Company : an Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (541 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction Towards an Ethnography of Corporate Social Responsibility; Chapter 1 'Let Business Lift Africa Out of Poverty': Global Corporate Citizenship-A New Orthodoxy; Chapter 2 'Mines Are for Men, Not for Money': A History of Giving; Chapter 3 'Proudly South African': A Division of the Spoils; Chapter 4 'HIV/AIDS Is Our Business': Market Logics and Moral Imperatives; Chapter 5 The Moral Economy of Treatment: Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace
Chapter 6 Between the Market and the Gift: Corporate Responsibility in the CommunityChapter 7 Between the Company and the Community: The Limits of Responsibility?; Conclusion Market Myths and Moral Discourse: Corporate Capitalism and the Pursuit of Moral Authority; Notes; References; Index
Summary & DIV & Under the banner of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporations have become increasingly important players in international development. These days, CSR's union of economics and ethics is virtually unquestioned as an antidote to harsh neoliberal reforms and the delinquency of the state, but nothing is straightforward about this apparently win-win formula. Chronicling transnational mining corporation Anglo American's pursuit of CSR, & I & In Good Company & /I & explores what lies behind the movement's marriage of moral imperative and market discipline. & BR & & BR & From the company's global h
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Anglo American (Firm)
SUBJECT Anglo American (Firm) fast
Subject Social responsibility of business -- South Africa -- Case studies
Mining corporations -- South Africa -- Case studies
International business enterprises -- South Africa -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
International business enterprises
Mining corporations
Social responsibility of business
Management.
Business & Economics.
Management Styles & Communication.
South Africa
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804781619
0804781613