Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience - Hardcover

Carroll, Archie B.; Lipartito, Kenneth J.; Post, James E.; Werhane, Patricia H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107020948 ISBN 13: 9781107020948

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This thought-provoking history of corporate responsibility in the USA is a landmark publication documenting the story of corporate power and business behavior from the mid-eighteenth century to the modern day. It shows how the idea of corporate responsibility has evolved over time, with the roles, responsibilities and performance of corporations coming increasingly under the spotlight as new norms of transparency and accountability emerge. Today, it is expected that a corporation will be transparent in its operations; that it will reflect ethical values that are broadly shared by others in society; and that companies will enable society to achieve environmental sustainability as well as a high standard of living. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, the social, political and economic landscape is once again shifting: the need for an informed public conversation about what is expected of the modern corporation has never been greater.

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Book Description

This landmark history of corporate responsibility documents corporate power and business behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century to the modern day. It shows how corporate responsibility has evolved, with the roles, responsibilities and performance of corporations coming increasingly under the spotlight as new norms of transparency and accountability emerge.

About the Author

Kenneth E. Goodpaster holds the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics in the Opus College of Business at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107020948
• ISBN 13: 9781107020948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 632
• Editor: Goodpaster Kenneth E.