Corporate Responsibility, Synchronicity and Complexity

Malcolm McIntosh

Chapter Chapter 4 in Raising a Ladder to the Moon, 2003, pp 83-108 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Previous chapters have noted that there are varying approaches to corporate citizenship through the portals of governance, human rights, sustainability, accountability and economic history. The subject can also approached from the viewpoint of an investor, a consumer or any other stakeholder. Indeed the clatter of conversation around the role, scope and performance of corporations is nowadays incessant and ubiquitous. To many this has the characteristics of discourse: it is informed but diverse, intelligent but opinionated, positioned but open to discussion. It is also a characteristic of this debate that most participants hold a multiplicity of roles. Just as corporate social responsibility can be approached through brand, consumer, stakeholder or producer, so too participants have a tendency as they engage to move between their social roles as mothers, employees, investors, managers, consumers and victims.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Supply Chain; Corporate Governance; Complexity Theory; Corporate Responsibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511996_5

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