Additional reading

Look at the bibliography at the end of the book and you will see the wealth of published material relevant to corporate responsibility. Some of that material is readily available; some can be difficult to get hold of. Here is a list of 100 corporate responsibility books that should be available from high street bookstores or online.

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ANDRIOF, J. and MCINTOSH, M., 2001. Perspectives on corporate citizenship. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
ANDRIOF, J., WADDOCK, S., HUSTED, B. and RAHMAN, S.S., 2002. Unfolding stakeholder thinking vol. 1 & 2. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
BAIRD, L., POST, J.E. and MAHON, J.F., 1990. Management : functions and responsibilities. New York: Harper & Row.
BAKAN, J., 2004. The corporation : the pathological pursuit of profit and power. New York: Free Press.
BLAKE, D.H., FREDERICK, W.C. and MYERS, M.S., 1976. Social auditing : evaluating the impact of corporate programs. New York: Praeger.
BUCHHOLZ, R.A., MARCUS, A.A. and POST, J.E., 1992. Managing environmental issues : a casebook. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
CANNON, T., 1994. Corporate responsibility : a textbook on business ethics, governance, environment : roles and responsibilities. London: Pitman.
CARROLL, A.B. and BUCHHOLTZ, A.K., 2006. Business & society : ethics and stakeholder management. 6th edn. Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western.
CARROLL, A.B., 1977. Managing corporate social responsibility. Boston: Little, Brown.
CHARKHAM, J. 2005 Keeping better company, Oxford University Press. Oxford
CHENOWETH, J. and BIRD, J., 2005. The business of water and sustainable development. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
CRAMER, J., 2006. Corporate social responsibility and globalisation : an action plan for business. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing.
CRANE, A., MATTEN, D. and CRANE, A., 2007. Business ethics : managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization. 2nd edn. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
CRANE, A., MATTEN, D. and SPENCE, L.J., 2007. Corporate social responsibility : readings and cases in a global context. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge.
CROWTHER, D. and CALIYURT, K.T., 2006. Globalisation and social responsibility. Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press.

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DERBER, C., 1998. Corporation nation : how corporations are taking over our lives and what we can do about it. New York: St. Martin's Press.
DONALDSON, T. and GINI, A., 1996. Case studies in business ethics. 4th edn. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
DONALDSON, T., WERHANE, P.H. and VAN ZANDT, J., 2008. Ethical issues in business : a philosophical approach. 8th edn. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall.
DRUCKER, P.F., 1946. Concept of the corporation. New York: The John Day company.
ECONOMY, E., 2004. The river runs black : the environmental challenge to China's future. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
EHRENREICH, B., 2001. Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America. New York: Metropolitan Books.
ELKINGTON, J., 1998. Cannibals with forks : the triple bottom line of 21st century business. Gabriola Island, BC, Stony Creek, CT: New Society Publishers.
ELKINGTON, J., 2001. The chrysalis economy : how citizen CEOs and corporations can fuse values and value creation. Oxford: Capstone.
ELLIOTT, K.A. and FREEMAN, R.B., 2003. Can labor standards improve under globalization? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics.
ESTES, R.W., 1996. Tyranny of the bottom line : why corporations make good people do bad things. 1st edn. San Francisco; Emeryville, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; Publishers Group West distributor.
FREDERICK, W.C., 1995. Values, nature, and culture in the American corporation. New York: Oxford University Press.
FREDERICK, W.C., 2006. Corporation be good! : the story of corporate social responsibility. Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Pub.
FREEMAN, R.E., 1984. Strategic management : a stakeholder approach. Boston: Pitman.
FRIEDMAN, T.L., 2005. The world is flat : a brief history of the globalized world in the twenty-first century. London: Allen Lane.

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GALBRAITH, J.K., 1952. American capitalism, the concept of countervailing power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
GALBRAITH, J.K., 1972. The emerging public corporation. Business and Society Review, 1, pp. 54-56.
GRAY, R., OWEN, D. and ADAMS, C., 1996. Accounting and accountability. London : New York: Prentice Hall.
GRAYSON, D. and HODGES, A., 2002. Everybody's business : managing risks and opportunities in today's global society. London ; New York: DK Pub.
GRAYSON, D. and HODGES, A., 2004. Corporate Social Opportunity: Seven Steps to Make Corporate Social Responsibility Work for Your Business. Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing.
HANDY, C.B., 1998. The hungry spirit : beyond capitalism : a quest for purpose in the modern world. 1st edn. New York: Broaday Books.
HART, S.L., 2005. Capitalism at the crossroads : the unlimited business opportunities in solving the world's most difficult problems. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Great Britain ; Wharton School.
HAWKEN, P., LOVINS, A.B. and LOVINS, L.H., 1999. Natural capitalism : creating the next industrial revolution. 1st edn. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
HAWKINS, D., 2006. Corporate social responsibility: balancing tomorrow's sustainability and today's profitability. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
HENNIGFELD, J., POHL, M. and TOLHURST, N., eds, 2006. The ICCA handbook on corporate social responsibility. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
HENRIQUES, A. and RICHARDSON, J., 2004. The triple bottom line, does it all add up? : assessing the sustainability of business and CSR. London ; Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
HENRIQUES, A., 2007. Corporate truth : the limits to transparency. London ; Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
HOLLIDAY, C.O., SCHMIDHEINY, S., WATTS, P. and WORLD BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 2002. Walking the talk : the business case for sustainable development. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
HOPKINS, M., 2007. Corporate social responsibility and international development : is business the solution? London: Earthscan.

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JACKSON, I.A. and NELSON, J., 2004. Profits with principles : seven strategies for delivering value with values. 1st edn. New York: Currency/Doubleday.
JACOBY, N. H. 1973 Corporate power and social responsibility; a blueprint for the future, Macmillan. New York
JENKINS, R.O., PEARSON, R. and SEYFANG, G., 2002. Corporate responsibility and labour rights : codes of conduct in the global economy. London ; Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
JENSEN, M.C., 2000. A theory of the firm : governance, residual claims, and organizational forms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
KELLY, M., 2001. The divine right of capital : dethroning the corporate aristocracy. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.
KHURANA, R. 2007. From higher aims to hired hands: the social transformation of American business schools and the unfulfilled promise of management as a profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
KLEIN, N., 1999. No logo : taking aim at the brand bullies. New York: Picador USA.
KLEIN, T.A., 1977. Social costs and benefits of business. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
KNIGHTS, D. and TINKER, T., 1997. Financial institutions and social transformations : international studies of a sector. New York: St. Martin's Press.
KOLB, R.W., 2008. Encyclopedia of business ethics and society. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
KORTEN, D.C., 1995. When corporations rule the world. West Hartford, Conn. San Francisco, Calif.: Kumarian Press ; Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
KORTEN, D.C., 1999. The post-corporate world : life after capitalism. San Francisco, CA ; United Kingdom: Berrett-Koehler.
LASZLO, C., 2003. The sustainable company : how to create lasting value through social and environmental performance. Washington, DC: Island Press.
LAWRENCE, A.T., WEBER, J. and POST, J.E., 2005. Business and society : stakeholders, ethics, public policy. 11th edn. Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
LEIPZIGER, D., 2003. The corporate responsibility code book. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
LEVY, D.L. and NEWELL, P., 2005. The business of global environmental governance. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
LITVIN, D.B., 2003. Empires of profit : commerce, conquest and corporate responsibility. New York: Texere.
LOCKE, R.M., KOCHAN, T.A. and PIORE, M.J., 1995. Employment relations in a changing world economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
LYDENBERG, S.D., 2005. Corporations and the public interest : guiding the invisible hand. 1st edn. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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MAMIC, I., 2004. Implementing codes of conduct : how businesses manage social performance in global supply chains. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing and International Labour Office.
MARGOLIS, J. D. and WALSH, J. P. 2001 People and profits: the search for a link between a company's social and financial performance. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
MAY, S., CHENEY, G. and ROPER, J., 2007. The debate over corporate social responsibility. New York: Oxford University Press.
MCDERMOTT, J., 1991. Corporate society : class, property, and contemporary capitalism. Boulder: Westview Press.
MCDONOUGH, W. and BRAUNGART, M., 2002. Cradle to cradle : remaking the way we make things. 1st edn. New York: North Point Press.
MCINTOSH, M. and FINANCIAL TIMES MANAGEMENT, 1998. Corporate citizenship : successful strategies for responsible companies. London: Financial Times.
MCINTOSH, M. and THOMAS, R., 2000. Global companies in the twentieth century : selected archival histories. London: Routledge.
MCINTOSH, M., 2003. Raising a ladder to the moon : the complexities of corporate social and environmental responsibility. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan.
NICHOLLS, A. and OPAL, C., 2005?. Fair trade : market-driven ethical consumption. London: SAGE.
O'ROURKE, K.H. and WILLIAMSON, J.G., 1999. Globalization and history : the evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

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PEDERSEN, E.R. and HUNICHE, M., eds, 2006. Corporate Citizenship in Developing Countries: New Partnership Perspectives. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.
PLENDER, J., 1997. A stake in the future : the stakeholding solution. London: Nicholas Brealey.
PLENDER, J., 2003. Going off the rails : global capital and the crisis of legitimacy. West Sussex, England: J. Wiley.
POST, J.E., LAWRENCE, A.T. and WEBER, J., 1999. Business and society : corporate strategy, public policy, ethics. 9th edn. Boston, MA: Irwin/McGraw-Hill.
POST, J.E., PRESTON, L.E. and SAUTER-SACHS, S., 2002. Redefining the corporation : stakeholder management and organizational wealth. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Business Books.
PR NEWS, 2006. Guide to best practices in corporate social responsibility. unknown: PR News.
PRAHALAD, C.K., 2005. The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing.
PRESTON, L.E. and POST, J.E., 1975. Private management and public policy : the principle of public responsibility. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

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SCHALTEGGER, S., 2003. An introduction to corporate environmental management : striving for sustainability. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
SCHWARTZ, P. and GIBB, B., 1999. When good companies do bad things : responsibility and risk in an age of globalization. New York: John Wiley.
SEIDLER, L. J. and SEIDLER, L. L. (eds.). Social Accounting: Theory, Issues and Cases. Melville Publishing Company.
SETHI, S.P., 2003. Setting global standards : guidelines for creating codes of conduct in multinational corporations. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley.
SKLAIR, L., 2002. Globalization : capitalism and its alternatives. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
SORELL, T. and HENDRY, J., 1994. Business ethics. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
SPARKES, R., 2002. Socially responsible investment : a global revolution. New York: J. Wiley.
STEGER, U., 2004. The business of sustainability : building industry cases for corporate sustainability. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
STIGLITZ, J.E., 2005. Fair trade for all : how trade can promote development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
THOMAS, D.C., 2003. Readings and cases in international management : a cross-cultural perspective. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
TINKER, A. M. 1985 Paper Prophets: A Social Critique of Accounting, Holt Saunders. Eastbourne
TULDER, R.V., 2006. International business-society management : linking corporate responsibility and globalization. London: Routledge.

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VIDAL, J., 1997. McLibel : burger culture on trial. New York: New Press.
VOGEL, D., 2005. The market for virtue : the potential and limits of corporate social responsibility. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
WADDOCK, S.A., 2006. Leading corporate citizens : vision, values, value-added. 2nd edn. Boston, Mass.: McGraw-Hill.
WOOD, D.J., LOGSDON, J.M., LEWELLYN, P.G. and DAVENPORT, P.G., 2006. Global business citizenship : a transformative framework for ethics and sustainable capitalism. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
YUNUS, M., 1998. Banker to the poor : the autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. London: Aurum.
ZADEK, S., 2007. The civil corporation : the new economy of corporate citizenship. Rev. edn. London: Earthscan.
ZADEK, S., PRUZAN, P.M., EVANS, R. and NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION, 1997. Building corporate accountability : emerging practices in social and ethical accounting, auditing, and reporting. London: Earthscan.
ZAKHEM, A.J., PALMER, D.E. and STOLL, M.L., 2007. Stakeholder theory : essential readings in ethical leadership and management. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.

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