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The rise of global corporate social responsibility : mining and the spread of global norms /
"Combining insights from international relations theory with institutional approaches from organization theory and public policy, this book provides a complete explanation for the adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), showing how global norms influenced CSR adoption in the mining i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Business and public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction. The changing global context
- Global norms and mining
- Corporate social responsibility and sustainable development in mining : emerging patterns
- CSR : a brief definition
- The normative weight of sustainable development
- Explaining the mining industry's response to sustainable development
- Convergence : common response to external systemic constraints
- Country-of-origin effects
- Weighing the evidence
- Research design and method
- Data sources
- Case selection
- Company profiles
- Noranda
- Placer Dome
- Barrick Gold Corporation
- Organization of book
- 2 Theoretical explanation of CSR adoption. Introduction
- Elaboration of the three-level institutional approach
- Rational choice institutionalism
- "New" institutionalism
- Historical institutionalism
- Weighing the influence of global CSR norms
- A multi-level framework for explaining CSR norms socialization
- Internal factors
- Organizational factors, culture, and the learning process
- Corporate culture
- Role of learning
- External environment
- Stakeholder theory
- Conceptualizing global norms
- Norms socialization and sustainable development
- The norms life cycle
- Conclusion
- 3 Major developments in the global mining industry. Introduction
- Structural changes in the global mining industry
- Canada's place in the global mining industry
- Hard-rock mining and smelting process
- Implications for CSR
- Historical institutionalism : the critical juncture
- Mining's bad reputation
- Role of NGOs
- Role of international organizations, international treaties, and "soft law"
- Conditions attached to financing
- Rational choice institutionalism
- Domestic institutional context
- Institutional context in developing countries
- Canadian institutional context
- Canadian private sector response to external pressures
- Conclusion
- 4 Noranda Inc. Introduction
- Institutional setting : external pressures (global and domestic)
- Organizational and managerial response
- Policy development
- Experiences that shaped the learning process
- External engagement
- The path to sustainable development
- Environment
- Social
- Economic
- Learning and sustainable development
- Conclusion
- 5 Placer Dome Inc. Introduction
- Institutional setting : external pressures (global and domestic)
- Organizational and managerial response
- Shift in thinking
- Lessons from the experience of mining
- The path to sustainable development
- Sustainable development policy
- From "sustainable development" to "sustainability"
- Conclusion
- 6 Barrick Gold Corporation. Introduction
- Environmental/social challenges
- Institutional setting : external pressures
- Organizational and managerial response
- Shift in thinking and role of leadership
- Organizational and policy changes
- Experiences shaping the learning process
- Engagement with external stakeholders
- Approach to sustainable development.