Editors:
- Assesses the full range of social obligations that corporations held historically
- Investigates the social life of the corporation from three key perspectives
- Provides a long-term outlook on the oscillation between cultural norms that encouraged socially responsible business and states who tried to force businesses to behave responsibly
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance (PSHF)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between corporations and their various social obligations over the very long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Chapters from emerging and established business historians assess the full range of social obligations that corporations held historically. By adopting an innovative methodological approach that is long-term and comparative, this book offers a challenge to the literature on corporate history and will be of interest to researchers and academics in the field of finance and business history.
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Editors and Affiliations
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School of History, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
William A Pettigrew
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Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
David Chan Smith
About the editors
William A. Pettigrew is a Reader in History at the University of Kent, UK, the founding Director of the Centre for the Political Economies of International Commerce (PEIC) and the Lead Investigator of a Leverhulme Trust grant project on England’s seventeenth-century overseas trading companies. He is the author of Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672–1752 (2013).
David Chan Smith is an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is currently researching the history of corporate social responsibility and beginning his next project on Matthew Boulton, innovation during the Industrial Revolution, and the emergence of global carbon networks. His first book, Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws (2014), is a study of the early modern common law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950
Editors: William A Pettigrew, David Chan Smith
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60146-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60145-8Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86789-2Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60146-5Published: 26 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-5164
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5172
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 313
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour