Corporate social responsibility, accountability and governance : global perspectives / edited by Istemi Demirag.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[PART 1 Emerging governance structures, risks and networking] Introduction : responsibility, accountability and governance : the presumed connections with the state, the market and the civil society and an overview / Istemi Demirag -- Broadening the notion of governance from the organisation to the domain : a study of municipal water systems in Canada / Stephanie Bertels and Harrie Vredenburg -- Regulation, responsibility and representation : challenges for intra-organisational communication / Wolfgang Meyer -- Multi-stakeholder collaborative processes, regulation and governance : two Canadian case studies / Marie-France Turcotte and Corinne Gendron -- Levels of new governance from a corporate perspective / Arved Luth, Stefan Schafers and Constanze J. Helmchen -- A framework for examining accountability and value for money in the UK's private finance initiative / Istemi Demirag, Melvin Dubnick and M. Iqbal Khadaroo -- Risk regulation regimes in aviation: were the chips ever really down in the UK's management of Y2K? / Kevin Quigley

[PART 2 Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder theory] Seeking global solutions for the common good: a new world order and corporate social responsibility / Robin T. Byerly -- Toward better governance: the stakeholder partnership framework / Craig E. Armstrong -- Adding the stakeholder value: governance convergence in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors / Alison L. Dempsey

[PART 3 Empirical studies on emerging governance structures and corporate social responsibility] Governance via collective learning between corporate and public actors / Raimund Bleischwitz, Kristian Andersen & Michael Latsch -- CSR in the Scandinavian countries: a review of voluntary versus regulated ... / Eli Bleie Munkelien, Pia Rudolfsson Goyer & Izabela Fratczak -- Governance and management of protected areas in Canada and Mexico / Angeles Mendoza & Dixon Thompson -- Putting governance to work in a US company: the Carris experience / Cecile G. Betit -- Networks for environmental management: involving public and quasi-public organisations for market development towards sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Jose Antonio

[PART 4 Corporate governance and its implications for regulators and civil society] Corporate governance models: intenational legal perspectives / Zeljko Sevis -- Conflicting and conflating interests in the regulation and governance of the financial markets in the United States / Istemi Demirag & Justin O'Brien -- A systemic view of US government in market governance: lessons learned from the California electricity crisis / Kimberly Samaha -- Good governance and anti-corruption mobilisation: do Russian NGSs have any say? / Diana Schmidt

[PART 5 Multinational companies and their implications for the new governance structures, regulators and civil society] NGO-business collaborations and the law: sustainability, limitations of law, and the changing relationship between companies and NGOs / Kees Bastmeijer & Jonathan Verschuuren -- Strategic options for multinational corporate programmes in international corporate social responsibility / Bryane Michael -- Concluding remarks on emerging governance structures and practices: the state, the market and the voice of civil society / Istemi Demirag & John Barry

This work explores the 'missing link' between CSR and governance mechanisms that are capable of embracing true stakeholder accountabililty.

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