Andrew Crane is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics in the Schulich School of Business at York University. He has a PhD in Management from the University of Nottingham, and was previously Chair in Business Ethics and Director of the UK's first MBA in CSR in the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School.

Abagail McWilliams, PhD - Ohio State University, is a Professor in the College of Business, University of Illinois - Chicago and since 2002 has been a Visiting Professor in the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility - University of Nottingham. Her research on CSR has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies.

Dirk Matten holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. He holds a doctoral degree and the habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany. He is interested in CSR, business ethics and comparative management. He has published widely, including in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, and Business Ethics Quarterly.

Jeremy Moon is Professor and Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School. Recent publications include Corporations and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press) and papers in Academy of Management Review and British Journal of Management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Donald S. Siegel is Dean of the Business School at the University at Albany, SUNY. Recent publications include Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (Oxford University Press) and articles on CSR in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and Leadership Quarterly. He is editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer, an associate editor of the Journal of Business Venturing and the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning & Education, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

• Section I: Introduction


• 1: Andrew Crane, Abagail McWilliams, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon, and Donald Siegel: The CSR Agenda


• Section II: Perspectives on CSR


• 2: Archie B. Carroll: A History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Concepts and Practices


• 3: Domènec Melé: Corporate Social Responsibility Theories


• 4: Elizabeth C. Kurucz, Barry A. Colbert, and David Wheeler: The Business Case for CSR


• 5: Marc Orlitzky: Corporate Social Performance and Financial Performance: A Research Synthesis


• Section III: Critiques of CSR


• 6: José Salazar and Bryan W. Husted: Principals and Agents: Further Thoughts on the Friedmanite Critique of CSR


• 7: Gerard Hanlon: Re-Thinking Corporate Social Responsibility and the Role of the Firm: On the Denial of Politics


• 8: Timothy Kuhnand and Stanley Deetz: Critical Theory and CSR: Can/Should We Get Beyond Cynical Reasoning?


• 9: J. (Hans) van Oosterhout and Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens: Much Ado About Nothing: A Conceptual Critique of CSR


• Section IV: Actors and Drivers


• 10: Diane Swanson: Top Managers as Drivers for CSR


• 11: Lloyd Kurtz: Socially Responsible Investment and Shareholder Activism


• 12: N. Craig Smith: Consumers as Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility


• 13: Jeremy Moon and David Vogel: CSR, Government, and Civil Society


• Section V: Managing CSR


• 14: Ann K. Buchholtz, Jill A. Brown, and Kareem M. Shabana: Corporate Governance and CSR


• 15: Thomas W. Dunfee: Stakeholder Theory: Managing CSR in a Multiple Actor Context


• 16: Andrew Millington: Responsibility in the Supply Chain


• 17: David Owen and Brendan O'Dwyer: CSR: The Reporting and Assurance Dimension


• Section VI: CSR in Global Context


• 18: Andreas Georg Scherer and Guido Palazzo: Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility


• 19: David L. Levy and Rami Kaplan: CSR and Theories of Global Governance: Strategic Contestation in Global Issue Arenas


• 20: Cynthia A. Williams and Ruth V. Aguilera: Corporate Social Responsibility in a Comparative Perspective


• 21: Wayne Visser: CSR in Developing Countries


• Section VII: Future Perspectives and Conclusions


• 22: Duane Windsor: Educating for Responsible Management


• 23: William C. Frederick: Corporate Social Responsibility:Deep Roots, Flourishing Growth, Promising Future


• 24: Alison Mackey, Tyson B. Mackey, and Jay B. Barney: Senior Management Preferences and Corporate Social Responsibility


• 25: Thomas Donaldson: The Transatlantic Paradox: How Outdated Concepts Confuse the American/European Debate about Corporate Governance


• 26: Peter Pruzan: Spirituality as a firm basis for CSR


• 27: Ulrich Steger: Future Perspectives of CSR: Where are we coming from? Where are we heading?


• 28: Andrew Crane, Abagail McWilliams, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon, and Donald Siegel: Conclusion