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- Part of the Palgrave Macmillan SocioLegal Studies series
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Development in an Era of Capital Control investigates Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a 21st century buzz word. Centred around the responsibility of business to give back to society, this idea is a departure from the traditional view that the responsibility of business is to make a profit. Instead, it supposes that business, society and government can unite to enhance the quality of life in the community in which the business operates.
This book works from the premise that whereas CSR could assist in developing communities, the quality and value of this contribution is constrained by pre-existing inequalities in the global system, which themselves can be traced to states’ histories and furthered by globalisation. Ciara Hackett shows that while the concept of CSR was designed for an environment where all states are equal, this does not ring true in the real world and consequently the potential for CSR to contribute to development is restricted, most profoundly in those states that would benefit the most.
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Ciara Hackett is a Lecturer in Law at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development in an Era of Capital Control
Book Subtitle: Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility within a Transnational Regulatory Framework
Authors: Ciara Hackett
Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47746-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48527-4Published: 05 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47746-0Published: 26 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-9274
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 158
Topics: Commercial Law