officials and politicians ( Chanley et al, 2000 ; Keele, 2007 ; Bouckaert, 2012 ; Hakhverdian and Mayne, 2012 ; Khan, 2016) . This study takes a somewhat different approach. We focus on the role of citizens’ perceptions about the government’s social responsibility in determining their trust in the government. We suggest that these perceptions express predispositions about the role of government in our lives. They are especially important when considering the growing debate between supporters of the welfare state and market-dominant doctrines. The welfare state
85 SIX Embracing social responsibilities through local leadership: comparing the experience of the mayors of Bristol and Liverpool Nasrul Ismail, University of Bristol, UK Introduction The concept of social responsibility in leadership has not been frequently articulated in the policy and politics debate. I argue such a concept emerges from, and entails notions of, accountability (Cameron and Caza, 2005), integrity (Badaracco and Ellsworth, 1989), dependability (Meindl and Ehrlich, 1987), and authenticity (Freeman and Auster, 2011), exercised within
71 10 Returning business ethics and philanthropy to corporate social responsibility Philip Collins Philip Collins is Director of the Social Market Foundation (SMF), an independent think tank. He is the author of two novels and, before joining the SMF, was an equity strategist in two investment banks. here is a great deal of argument at the moment about the idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It is an important idea. The question of how money is made and how it is deployed is a crucial one. The idea has been brought into the headlines by a now
81 Policy & Politics • vol 43 • no 1 • 81-99 • © Policy Press 2015 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557312X656016 article Government policies for corporate social responsibility in Europe: a comparative analysis of institutionalisation Jette Steen Knudsen, jette.knudsen@tufts.edu Tufts University, USA Jeremy Moon, jmo.ikl@cbs.dk Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Rieneke Slager, rieneke.slager@nottingham.ac.uk Nottingham University Business School, UK This paper analyses policies of
149 The social policies of corporations SEVEN The social policies of corporations: occupational welfare and corporate social responsibility Introduction Previous chapters have focused primarily on business and state social policies. This chapter shifts the spotlight onto firms and corporate social policy, through which businesses are able to shape overall levels of social provision within societies. Occupational welfare and corporate community involvement – or to use a more commonly applied nomenclature, corporate social responsibility (CSR) – are of growing
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means ‘various self-regulatory mechanisms and controls which corporate management might initiate to ensure, or seem to ensure, compliance with ethical standards, international norms and the true spirit of the law, in transactions with all stakeholders’ ( Corporate Reform Collective, 2014 : 52). Stakeholders include direct clients, shareholders, employees and others who are directly or indirectly affected by their operations. Ethical standards apply to labour laws, environment and the quality of the goods and services they
143 SEVEN Corporate social responsibility and community development in a mining region in India: issues of power, control and co-option Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö and Bipin Jojo Introduction “Earlier, not much care was taken about the local society. Now that awareness is there.” This claim was made in an interview with the managing director of a large-scale iron mine in eastern India in January 2015, when he reflected back on his long experience in the Indian mining industry. While the claim encapsulates a long-term corporate trend, in India corporate involvement
99 4 The data-informed marketing model and its social responsibility Martin Evans Introduction The blend of tracking customers’ transactions, their financial status, profile characteristics and financial value to the company has now become the bedrock marketing model for many businesses and is being extended by the use of many more sources of personal data. Furthermore, the last 20 years or so have seen a number of significant developments that have fuelled this even further. This chapter explores some of these together with possible social implications arising
eleven Do the people want power? The social responsibilities of empowering communities∗ Chris Hart, Kathryn Jones and Manmohan Bains Introduction This chapter reports on research in progress. We investigate the degree to which the assumptions underpinning current approaches to the policy of empowerment (and its associated concepts and manifestations, eg, charters) have been operationalised and what it would take to have a society of empowered citizens. Our work on charters, citizenship and local initiatives aimed at empowering ‘communities’ has
Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Lonneke Roza and Stephen Brammer (eds) (2020) Employee Engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility SAGE Publications 216pp Paperback: ISBN 978-1-5264-9650-8, £29.99 Hardback: ISBN 978-1-5264-9651-5, £85.00 In creating and delivering their employer’s corporate social responsibility (CSR), employees are passive and reactive, attracted and repelled, initiators and boycotters. Employee Engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility explores the themes and tensions of employee engagement, defined as the ‘in-role and extra
