Overview
- Analyses theoretical issues concerning the nature of the firm by examining shareholder primacy and stakeholder theory
- Includes a condensed but comprehensive overview of legal perspectives on CSR in American corporate governance
- Provides a critical legal analysis of transplanting CSR laws from the West to East (via the example of the United States and South Korea), which may have significant implications around the globe, especially in Asian countries
- Proposes a legislative blueprint for establishing a foundation to legitimize and effectively implement CSR
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book offers readers a comprehensive and in-depth legal analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by examining the theoretical foundations of corporate governance and its legal mechanism in the United States and South Korea. Moreover, it proposes legislative blueprint for establishing the legal frameworks that might serve to legitimize and effectively implement CSR in general. Reflecting the zeitgeist of improved corporate accountability and transparency, the ongoing movement to enhance CSR has permeated entire sectors of society the world over. Despite the apparent ubiquity of CSR, the corporate laws of many countries remain relatively silent on the issue, omitting to include any explicit provision governing the concept. Partly in response to this lack of legislation, Korean corporate scholars, for example, have attempted to introduce American legal theories, systems and laws on CSR into Korea. Yet traditional Korean jurisprudence provides no defining foundation for CSR; indeed, the prevailing view in jurisprudence and scholarship passively resists instituting corporate responsibility into the law. In response to this jurisprudential and academic shortcoming, and as an example for other countries, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the relevant legislation and theory on CSR in Korean corporate law by employing a comparative study of the relevant American theories and laws. Proceeding from this analysis, the book then puts forward a legislative blueprint for establishing a foundation to legitimize and effectively implement CSR.
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Book Title: Legal Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
Book Subtitle: Lessons from the United States and Korea
Authors: Jeehye You
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2386-3
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2385-6Published: 27 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2981-0Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2386-3Published: 17 July 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 147
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Labour Law/Social Law, Business Ethics, Corporate Governance