The New Corporate Accountability by Doreen Mcbarnet

The New Corporate Accountability by Doreen Mcbarnet

The adoption by companies of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies is routinely characterised as voluntary. But if CSR is self-governance by business, it is self-governance that has received a firm push from external social and market forces, from forces of social accountability. Law is also playing a more significant role than the image of CSR suggests, and this legal accountability - the focus of the book - is set to increase. Legal intervention should not, however, be seen as making social accountability redundant. Wider ethical standards and social and market forces are also necessary to make legal regulation effective. Law is being brought into play in innovative and indirect ways. The initiative lies as much with private organizations as with the state. At the same time governments are using social and market forces to foster CSR. In the context of corporate social responsibility, a new, multi-faceted, corporate accountability is emerging.

'… a heavyweight book, both literally and metaphorically …' The RoSPA Occupational Safety and Health Journal

Doreen McBarnet is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Aurora Voiculescu is Lecturer in Law at the Centre for Law, Open University. Tom Campbell is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University.

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ISBN 13	9780521142090
ISBN 10	0521142091
Title	The New Corporate Accountability
Author	Doreen Mcbarnet
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2009-08-06
Number of pages	602
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