Corporate social responsibility and corporate governance the contribution of economic theory and related disciplines - Sacconi, Lorenzo 1956- (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Corporate social responsibility is seen in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutional and stakeholder theories of the firm, new rational choice and social contract normative models, self regulatory and soft law models, and the advances from behavioral economics"--
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- PART I: PERSPECTIVE ON THE NATURE OF THE FIRM AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: TRANSACTION COSTS, TEAM PRODUCTION AND STAKEHOLDER THEORY -- Corporate Governance: a contractual and organisational perspective -- Human-Asset Essentiality and Corporate Social Capital in a Stakeholders-Society Perspective -- Stakeholder Theory as a Basis for Capitalism -- Behavioral economics, federalism and the triumph of Stakeholder theory -- Specific Investment and Corporate Law -- PART II: THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTRACT AND NORMATIVE RATIONAL CHOICE MODELS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, AND CSR -- A Rawlsian view on CSR as multistakeholder model of corporate governance, and the game theory of its implementation -- When reputation is not enough: justifying Corporate Social responsibility -- Corporate social responsibility in a market economy: the perspective of Constitutional Economics -- Rational Association and Corporate Responsibility -- PART III: CSR, REGULATION AND SELF-REGULATION -- CSR and Sustainable development -- The role of standardization, certification and assurance service in Global Commerce -- PART IV: MODELS OF NON-PURELY SELF-INTERESTED ECONOMIC AGENTS AND THE INTRINISIC MOTIVATION FOR THE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE THE ORGANISATIONS -- Voluntary Co-determination produces sustainable Competitive Advantage -- Corporate trust Games in modern knowledge economies -- Effects of Different Stakeholder Groups Strategic control on Organisational Effectiveness and Well-being of Customers and Employees: An Empirical Investigation -- Corporate Honesty and Business Education: a behavioural Model -- Trusting, Trustworthiness and CSR: Some Experiments and Implications