Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Governance

Abstract

Foreword Professor David L. Owen, International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School Introduction: Responsibility, accountability and governance: the presumed connections with the state, the market and the civil society and an overview Istemi Demirag, Queen's University Belfast, UK Part 1: Emerging governance structures, risks and networking 1. Broadening the notion of governance from the organisation to the domain: a study of municipal water systems in Canada Stephanie Bertels and Harrie Vredenburg, University of Calgary, Canada 2. Regulation, responsibility and representation: challenges for intra-organisational communication Wolfgang Meyer, Saarland University, Germany 3. Multi-stakeholder collaborative processes, regulation and governance: two Canadian case studies Marie-France Turcotte and Corinne Gendron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada 4. Levels of new governance from a corporate perspective Arved Luth, Stefan Schafers and Constanze J. Helmchen, IFOK Institute for Organisational Communication, Germany 5. A framework for examining accountability and value for money in the UK's Private Finance Initiative Istemi Demirag, Melvin Dubnick and M. Iqbal Khadaroo, Queen's University Belfast, UK 6. Risk regulation regimes in aviation: were the chips ever really down in the UK's management of Y2K? Kevin Quigley, Queen's University Belfast, UK Part 2: Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder theory 7. Seeking global solutions for the common good: a new world order and corporate social responsibility Robin T. Byerly, Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA 8. Toward better governance: the stakeholder partnership framework Craig E. Armstrong, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA 9. Adding the stakeholder value: governance convergence in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors Alison L. Dempsey, Canada Part 3: Empirical studies on emerging governance structures and corporate social responsibility 10. Governance via collective learning between corporate and public actors Raimund Bleischwitz, Wuppertal Institute, Germany and College of Europe, Belgium, Kristian Snorre Andersen, Wuppertal Institute, Germany and Aarhus University, Denmark, and Michael Latsch, College of Europe, Belgium 11. CSR in the Scandinavian countries: a review of voluntary versus regulated Eli Bleie Munkelien, DNV Research, Norway, Pia Rudolfsson Goyer, University of Oslo, Norway co-author: Izabela Fratczak, Technical University of Lodz, Poland, and Turku Polytechnic, Finland 12. Governance and management of protected areas in Canada and Mexico Angeles Mendoza Duran and Dixon Thompson, University of Calgary, Canada 13. Putting governance to work in a US company: the Carris experience Cecile G. Betit, independent researcher, USA 14. Networks for environmental management: involving public and quasi-public organisations for market development towards sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration - EBAPE Getulio Vargas Foundation - FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Part 4: Corporate governance and its implications for regulators and civil society 15. Corporate governance models: international legal perspectives Zeljko Sevic, University of Greenwich, UK Read abstract 16. Conflicting and conflating interests in the regulation and governance of the financial markets in the United States Istemi Demirag and Justin O'Brien, Queen's University Belfast, UK 17. A systemic view of US government in market governance: lessons learned from the California electricity crisis Kimberly Samaha, AMP Consulting, France 18. Good governance and anti-corruption mobilisation: do Russian NGOs have any say? Diana Schmidt, Queen's University Belfast, UK, and Sergey Bondarenko, Centre for Applied Research on Intellectual Property, Russia 19. NGO-business collaborations and the law: sustainability, limitations of law, and the changing relationship between companies and NGOs Kees Bastmeijer and Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg University, the Netherlands Part 5: Multinational companies and their implications for the new governance structures, regulators and civil society 20. Strategic options for multinational corporate programmes in international corporate social responsibility Bryane Michael, University of Oxford, UK 21. Concluding remarks on emerging governance structures and practices: the state, the market and the voice of civil society Istemi Demirag, John Barry and Iqbal Khadaroo, Queen's University Belfast, UK