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Chapter 02

Bakan, J. 2004. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. New York: Free Press.
The book provides an analysis of the modern corporation and its implications for social and environmental responsibility.

Bansal, P. (2005) 'Evolving Sustainably: A Longitudinal Study of Corporate Sustainable Development', Strategic Management Journal, 26: 197-218.
This article illustrates some of the macro factors that influence corporate sustainable development.

Beck, U. 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage.
This book explores the issues associated with government and institutional failure to protect its citizens from risk.

Belanger, J., Berggren, C., Bjorkman, T. and Kohler, C. 1999. Being Local Worldwide: ABB and the Challenge of Global Management. London: Cornell University Press.
Provides case study research on how management practices of MNCs differ depending on the interplay of host and home cultural contexts and other localized factors.

Carroll, A. 1979. 'A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Performance'. Academy of Management Review, 4(4): 497-505.
An early seminal piece on defining and better understanding corporate social performance.

Donaldson, T. and Preston, L. 1995. 'The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence and Implications'. Academy of Management Review, 20(1):65-91.
This paper explores and expands our understanding of stakeholder theory, and illustrates three different types.

Freeman, R. E. 1984. Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach. Boston: Pitman.
The book is considered to have been the starting point for using stakeholder theory in business literature.

Friedman, M. 1970. 'The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits'. New York Times Magazine, Sept. 13, 32/33.
An early seminal piece refuting the idea of corporate social responsibility.

Garriga, E. and Mele, D. 2004. 'Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory'. Journal of Business Ethics, 53: 51-71.
A categorization and grouping of the multitude of CSR theories in the literature.

Hertz, N. 2001. The Silent Takeover. London: Heinemann.
This book talks about the rise in power of corporations and the subsequent impact on society and our lives.

Mitchell, R., Agle, B. and Wood, D. 1997. 'Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of Who and What Really Counts'. Academy of Management Review, 22(4): 853-886.
This article provides a method for identifying stakeholders based on urgency, legitimacy and power.

Shamir, R. (2004). 'Between Self-Regulation and the Alien Tort Claims Act: On the Contested Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility'. Law & Society Review, 38(4): 635-664.
This article describes cases of MNCs sued in the US for human rights abuses in other countries and is used to illustrate the way society discusses these issues has implications for what happens in practice.

Windsor, D. 2006. 'Corporate Social Responsibility: Three Key Approaches'. Journal of Management Studies 43(1): 93-114.
A comparison of the more common approaches to corporate social responsibility.