Corporate Social Responsibility and the Shaping of Global Public Policy [Hardcover]

This book introduces readers to the dynamic networks made up of businesses, NGOs and multilateral organizations that, for better and for worse, define corporate social responsibility (CSR) today. It examines the work of these CSR networks that are taking on the heavy-lifting of global governance.The New Global Business Regulation: Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Practice Meets Theory: Global Governance and Global Public Policy Networks Managing Global Economic Transformations: The History of Regulating the Corporation, Then and Now Market Heal Thyself: Socially Responsible Investment Networks Wrestling with Pigs: Partnerships for Public Policy Private Supply Chain Management: Code Making and Enforcement Networks A Public Role for Private Actors: Conclusions and the Road Ahead

At a time when social contracts globally need reinvention, my BSR colleague Matt Hirschland's book is an extremely welcome arrival. If we are to create the sustainable and just world we seek, we have much to gain from fostering the global public policy networks he describes.His book will undoubtedly make a lasting and valued contribution to the way we think about global governance gaps and more importantly, the way we shape solutions.

- Aron Cramer, CEO, Business for Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Shaping of Global Public Policy refreshingly addresses the strengths and limits of contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) by describing in detail the rich networks that have grown up in the last decade to support and drive business sustainability.With his comprehensive and useful survey of the CSR landscape, Hirschland deepens our understanding of the concerns raised in business schools, board rooms, and management meetings about the scalability, desirability and impact of companies taking on daunting social and environmental challenges.This book should be mandatory reading for MBA students alӣ