Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development: Is Business the Solution?Earthscan, 2012 - 260 pages This book, written by noted Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practitioner Michael Hopkins, is the first to explicitly link CSR with development. It spells out what corporations are doing on development, what more they could do and how CSR can be a useful tool to promote economic development via corporations. This is important and challenging reading for all of those in government, business and NGOs who think that there must be a better, more effective and dynamic way to kick-start development and eradicate poverty. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Can CSR Pave the Way for Development? | 1 |
Chapter 2 What is CSR all About and Where is it Going? | 15 |
Failures and Success | 44 |
A Global View | 96 |
Chapter 5 Corporations Should Abandon Philanthropy and Concentrate on CSR | 113 |
Chapter 6 A Critique of CSR and Development | 118 |
Chapter 7 CSR and Poverty | 130 |
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