Okoye Legal approaches and Corporate Social Responsibility

Towards a Llewellyn’s law-jobs approach
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-56053-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Corporate Law

From the late 20th Century, a catalogue of high profile disasters and controversies has drawn attention to the changing relationship between corporations and society. This is taking place against the context of globalisation and this change has become the driving force for demands that corporations become socially responsible. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has therefore emerged as a concept which attempts to encapsulate these demands for social responsibility. Yet at the heart of CSR is the debate about the role and relevance of law.

This book will explore the proposition that CSR is a valid legal enquiry and will suggest a law-jobs approach which offers a potential general analytical perspective for examining such fluid concepts such as CSR in law. This approach is innovative because of the insistence of some users of CSR on placing law outside the parameters of CSR or giving it a very limited role; however, Okoye argues here that the very nature of CSR as seeking legitimacy for corporate power pushes to the fore the question of what role law can play. Law is an essential and important aspect of legitimacy and thus this work explores a legal theoretical approach that holds potential for a legal framework of CSR.

This interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to students and scholars of corporate law and business studies in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okoye, Adaeze

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht Allgemeines und Gesamtdarstellungen (Gesellschaftsrecht)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction- viewing CSR through legal lens? 2. CSR: Definitions and Conceptions 3. The legitimacy of corporate power as core to CSR 4. Law, structure and legitimacy 5. Why not corporate law? 6. Introducing the Law-jobs model of CSR 7. Exemplifying a law-jobs model of CSR 8. Conclusion- towards emerging CSR law frameworks?

Über Autor(innen)

Adaeze Okoye is a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.