A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950
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A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950

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A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950

About this book

This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between corporations and their various social obligations over the very long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Chapters from emerging and established business historians assess the full range of social obligations that corporations held historically. By adopting an innovative methodological approach that is long-term and comparative, this book offers a challenge to the literature on corporate history and will be of interest to researchers and academics in the field of finance and business history.

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Yes, you can access A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950 by William A Pettigrew, David Chan Smith, William A Pettigrew,David Chan Smith in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Economics & Economic History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319601458
eBook ISBN
9783319601465
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic History
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Editors and Contributors
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. 1 The History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards a Comparative and Institutional Contribution
  6. 2 Leadership and the Social Agendas of the Seventeenth-Century English Trading Corporation
  7. 3 Socially Responsible and Responsive Business in Seventeenth-Century England
  8. 4 Profit and Surety: The British Chartered Trading Companies and the State
  9. 5 Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rise of the Non-profit Sector in America
  10. 6 Local Concerns, Global Impact: The Social Structures and Influence of Early Anglo-American Firms at Home and Abroad, 1815–1840
  11. 7 The Distant Shareholder: Attenuated Investment and the Diffusion of Social Concerns
  12. 8 Canadian Regional and National Business Elites in 1912: Who Was Connected, Who Wasn’t and Why?
  13. 9 Trust, Reputation and Regulation: Securities Markets in Europe, the USA, and Japan Before 1914
  14. 10 Adolf Berle’s Critique of US Corporate Interests in the Caribbean Basin
  15. 11 Social(ist) Responsibility and Communist Management in Postwar Central Europe
  16. 12 Afterword: The History (and Future History) of Socially Responsible Business
  17. Index