Living in a Global Monitory Democracy: Social Responsibility, Global Strategy and the Multinational Enterprise

Abstract

The link between the social and political environment and the globalization is an area that has been subject to considerable debate yet still open to opportunities for learning, explanation and more effective structured modeling. The salience of this linkage has been rising in importance as more and more corporations find themselves subject to social responsibility demands and the relationship between a corporation’s fiduciary role to its owners and its responsibilities to the societies in which it operates has become a focal area of research in a number of key scholarly domains. In this article, we provide an outline of the work relating globalization, the corporation, and its social and political environment, link this work to the extant thinking in global strategy, and provide a framework in which we can think about building and effective research stream.