Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415459358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Kyoko Fukukawa

Opis

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important issue in contemporary business, management and politics, especially since the launch of the United Nations Global Compact in 2000 as an initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies and to report on them. This book examines the theory and practice of CSR in Asia. The philosophical and ideological underpinnings of CSR are rooted in Anglo-American and European principles of liberal democratic rights, justice and societal structures. This book not only considers the impact of Western CSR practices in Asia, but also provides much needed Asian perspectives on this issue. Arguing that Western CSR has enjoyed limited effectiveness, it asks whether Asia can avoid the mistakes that have plagued its operation in the West. It investigates the operation of CSR in different countries across Asia, including China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and South Asia, contrasting the different meanings given to this term and the varying degrees of success experienced in different national contexts. With Asia being home to the fastest growing economies in the global economy, this book shows clearly that the future prospects of CSR will depend greatly on what form it can take to be globally acceptable and properly observed.

Spis treści

1. Social Paradigms in China and the West  2. Structural Change in Corporate Society and CSR in Japan  3. Perceptions of CSR and its Adoption to Business Practice in the Thai Context  4. A Multilevel Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure in Malaysia  5. Exploitation of Labor in Bangladeshi RMG Sector: Who is responsible?  6. CSR – a Virtuous Circle. But Which Circle? And Whose ‘Virtue’?

O autorze

Kyoko Fukukawa is a Senior Lecturer at Bradford University School of Management, UK. She was a Fellow of the Japan Foundation in 2006, investigating CSR practices in Japan, and co-edited the special issue of Journal of Business Ethics on Corporate Identity, Ethics and CSR (2007).