Corporate Social Responsibility Across the Globe : Innovative Resolution of Regulatory and Governance Challenges

This book names impediments to effective regulation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by public and private persons and offers unique perspectives on how law can regulate CSR as a governance mechanism. Scholarship and policy in corporate law, political economy, and development studies will benefit from the book's contributions.

Corporate Social Responsibility Across the Globe demonstrates many ways that CSR can be applied by law to overcome regulation and governance challenges around the world. Using interdisciplinary and comparative models and perspectives, the book challenges dominant understandings of CSR, such as neoliberal voluntarism, and demonstrates the regulatory and governance implications of an interdependent relationship between CSR and the law. The book identifies substantive and procedural barriers for CSR in national, public, and private international law. By analyzing, deconstructing, and reframing CSR in these contexts, the book underlines opportunities for more effective application of CSR as a governance mechanism. Chapters investigate relevant regulation concepts, paradigms and approaches for CSR; methods for infusing CSR in corporate governance; and ways to facilitate private regulation of CSR in more developed, emerging, and developing jurisdictions.