Buckley, P orcid.org/0000-0002-0450-5589 (2018) Can corporations contribute directly to society or only through regulated behaviour? Journal of the British Academy. pp. 323-374. ISSN 2052-7217
Abstract
This paper explores the mechanisms by which corporations can contribute to society. It examines the roles of regulation and the autonomous contributions of corporations. The roles of incentives to managers to ‘do good’ and of corporate culture to foster social responsibility are considered. The investigation finds that modern corporations are bound by a web of rules and signals that both constrain and support action towards social goals. These include not only formal regulation, but also signals from consumers, compliance with standards, employee expectations, supplier demands, and pressures from civil society. Rules and signals vary by place and time and corporate social responsibility practices must evolve with these pressures from stakeholders.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The British Academy 2018. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode) |
Keywords: | Corporate strategy; corporate social responsibility (CSR); regulation; stakeholders; corporate culture |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2018 11:57 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:37 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | The British Academy |
Identification Number: | 10.5871/jba/006s1.323 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:139580 |