Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility : Cut-Throat Competition?

"Assuming a pro-business viewpoint, this book criticizes sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the reports of corporations. It launches an appeal to the representatives of SMEs around the world to make accountability happen in government organizations and monopolies."--Publisher description Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 11-12 The Backstage of Capitalism....Pages 13-31 CSR Is Who You Are (It’s Not What You Do)....Pages 32-43 Think Negative....Pages 44-48 The USDIME Framework....Pages 49-51 The Unknown Stakeholder....Pages 52-63 Disclosure....Pages 64-70 Implementation....Pages 71-77 Everyman’s Decision-Making: Micro-Ethics....Pages 78-85 Who’s Afraid of the Policy Analyst?....Pages 86-90 The Proof of the Pudding: Applying the USDIME Framework....Pages 91-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-118 The Neighborhood Bullies....Pages 119-139 The Profits of Non-Profit....Pages 140-152 The Autarky of Public Administration....Pages 153-167 Irrelevant Politics....Pages 168-178 Four Fruitful Generalizations: From CSR to Politics....Pages 179-193 What Is To Be Done? Developing a Political Agenda for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises....Pages 194-222 Farewell....Pages 223-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-252 Starting with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and analyzing what it is, what it is not, and what he'd like it to be, Paolo D'Anselmi extends CSR to all organizations in the economy (private and public) and develops the concept of 'accounting for work' as a duty for everybody within society. Critical of sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the CSR reports of corporations, he analyses these reports presenting them as cases in capsule form to help demonstrate that responsibility is for all organizations and how being subject to competition is a key driver of accountability. Building on this analysis, the author presents a solution that is more relevant to business in the form of a process framework formed of four values: unknown stakeholder, disclosure, implementation and micro-ethics

Assuming a pro-business viewpoint, this book criticizes sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the reports of corporations. It launches an appeal to the representatives of SMEs around the world to make accountability happen in government organizations and monopolies.