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Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance

The Contribution of Economic Theory and Related Disciplines

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Lorenzo Sacconi

    1. University of Trento, Italy
      Inter-university Research Center, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

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  2. Margaret Blair

    1. Vanderbilt University Law School, USA

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  3. R. Edward Freeman

    1. Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, USA

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  4. Alessandro Vercelli

    1. Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development, University of Siena, Italy

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Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutional and stakeholder theories of the firm, new rational choice and social contract normative models, self regulatory and soft law models, and the advances from behavioural economics.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xli
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  2. Nature of the Firm and its Governance Structure: Human Asset Specificity, Team Production and the Stakeholder Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Corporate Governance: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective

      • Oliver E. Williamson
      Pages 3-32

    3. Human-Asset Essentiality and Corporate Social Capital in a Stakeholders-Society Perspective

      • Masahiko Aoki
      Pages 33-51

    4. Stakeholder Theory as a Basis for Capitalism

      • R. Edward Freeman, Andrew C. Wicks, Bidhan Parmar
      Pages 52-72

    5. Behavioral Economics, Federalism and the Triumph of Stakeholder Theory

      • Allen Kaufman, Ernie Englander
      Pages 73-98

    6. Specific Investment and Corporate Law

      • Margaret M. Blair, Lynn A. Stout
      Pages 99-127

  4. CSR, Social Standards and Multi-Stakeholder Organisations According to the Behavioral Economics Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297
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    2. The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce

      • Margaret M. Blair, Cynthia A. Williams, Li-Wen Lin
      Pages 299-331

    3. Voluntary Co-determination Produces Sustainable Competitive Advantage

      • Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. Frey, Hossam Zeitoun
      Pages 332-352

    4. Corporate Trust Games in Modern Knowledge Economies

      • Leonardo Becchetti, Noemi Pace
      Pages 353-380

    5. Effects of Different Stakeholder Groups’ Strategic Control on Organizational Effectiveness and Well-Being of Customers and Employees: An Empirical Investigation

      • Avner Ben-Ner, Ting Ren
      Pages 381-409

    6. Trusting, Trustworthiness, and CSR: Some Experiments and Implications

      • Avner Ben-Ner, Louis Putterman
      Pages 410-431

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 432-441
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Trento, Italy

    Lorenzo Sacconi

  • Inter-university Research Center, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

    Lorenzo Sacconi

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, USA

    Margaret Blair

  • Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, USA

    R. Edward Freeman

  • Department of Economic Policy, Finance and Development, University of Siena, Italy

    Alessandro Vercelli

About the editors

LUCIANO ANDREOZZI University of Trento, Italy MASAHIKO AOKI Stanford University, USA LEONARDO BECCHETTI University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy AVNER BEN-NER University of Minnesota, USA BRUCE CHAPMAN University of Toronto, Canada ERNIE ENGLANDER George Washington University, USA BRUNO S. FREY University of Zurich, Switzerland ALLEN KAUFMAN University of New Hampshire, USA LI-WEN LIN University of Illinois, USA MARGIT OSTERLOH University of Zurich, Switzerland NOEMI PACE University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy BIDHAN PARMAR University of Virginia, USA LOUIS PUTTERMAN Brown University, USA TING REN Peking University, China LYNN A. STOUT University of California, Los Angeles, USA VIKTOR J. VANBERG University of Freiburg, Germany ANDREW WICKS University of Virginia, USA CYNTHIA A. WILLIAMS University of Illinois, USA OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON University of California, Berkeley, USA HOSSAM ZEITOUN University of Zurich, Switzerland

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