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International Comparative Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility: Democratising Corporate Governance in the Global Economy
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INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: DEMOCRATISING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Key Words: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Comparison, North-South Divide Abstract This symposium provides a cross cultural, global and comparative perspective on the contemporary topic of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The symposium is based on the assumption that the actual issues and challenges for CSR is highly dependent on the regional/national historical, cultural and institutional legacies in which corporations operate. Thus the first aim is to provide on overview of the state-of-the-art in the academic debate on CSR from major regional perspectives of the globe. These include North America and Europe as representatives of the developed world where CSR and related concepts have been developed and discussed for a considerable time. However, the symposium mirrors the fact that through globalization corporate actors face new challenges especially when moving beyond the frontiers of the industrialized world. Therefore a specific focus is put...
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