Corporate Social Responsibility -The Failing Discipline and Why it Matters for International Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4444231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Blowfield (Boston College, Massachusetts, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-191 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0047117805052812 |
| OpenAlex | W2058353835 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is failing at the very time it is emerging as a new discipline. This has implications not only for CSR itself, but also other disciplines wanting to understand the role of the private sector in the global political economy. This article highlights some of the evidence for this failure, but more significantly shows how it is rooted in an orthodoxy that the discipline has created but is unable to examine. As a result, CSR treats as ideationally and historically neutral particular concepts and practices that define what business's relationship with wider society can mean. The article uses the perspectives of different social science disciplines to reveal the structural dimensions to CSR and some of their consequences. It proposes an alternative analytical framework for use by CSR and as an entry point for international relations and other disciplines wanting to understand the ways in which business shapes and responds to globalisation and influences the possibilities of contemporary society and governance
Corporate governance · Corporate social responsibility · Discipline · Economics · Global governance · Globalization · International relations · Management · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · International Development and Aid · Law
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Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health
Global South States’ Views on Building Partnerships with Corporations
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Public relations, passive aggression and critical social auditing
A demographic examination of societal views regarding corporate social responsibility in the US forest products industry
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Utopian Spaces, Dystopian Places
Governmentality and the politics of CSR
Corporate social responsibility as relief from responsibility
Political CSR initiatives as levers of marginalisation
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Transnational Public-Private Partnerships in International Relations
Making Big Business Everybody’s Business
Revisiting the national corporate social responsibility index
Debating stakeholder reciprocity
The role of philanthropy in international relations
Corporate labour standards and work quality
Varieties of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
A Critical View of Global Governance
The origin of corporate social responsibility
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |