Beyond corporate social responsibility : oil multinationals and social challenges / Jedrzej George Frynas.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important approach for addressing the social and environmental impact of company activities. Yet companies are increasingly expected to go beyond this. They are now often expected to assist in addressing many of the world's most pressing p...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important approach for addressing the social and environmental impact of company activities. Yet companies are increasingly expected to go beyond this. They are now often expected to assist in addressing many of the world's most pressing problems, including climate change, poverty and HIV/AIDS. With increasing expectations placed on business, this book asks if CSR is capable of delivering on these larger expectations. It does so by investigating an industry that has been at the centre of the CSR development - the oil and gas sector. Looking at companies from developed countries such as Exxon and Shell, as well as companies from emerging economies such as Brazil's Petrobras and China's CNOOC, the book investigates the potential of CSR for addressing three important challenges in the business-society relationship: the environment, development and governance. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 051153843X 9780511538438 0511539266 9780511539268 0511540108 9780511540103 0511540566 9780511540561 0511540906 9780511540905 0511581548 9780511581540 1282155709 9781282155701 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511581540 |