The Political Role of Corporate Citizens

This volume provides an interdisciplinary analysis on the political role of corporations in society by using the analytical device of corporate citizenship. It questions what ideas on corporate citizenship may say about the ongoing publicization of the corporation and the implications of these developments for the public domain and welfare state.

"The profound re-ordering of the world involves among other things a shifting and transforming role of corporations. Corporations are expected to act as citizens and indeed as governments of global society and thus claim and assume substantial political power and responsibility. This volume provides us with a rich theoretical understanding and intriguing empirical studies of the political role of corporations around the world. The Political Role of Corporate Citizens is essential reading to scholars interested in how corporations add to the transformation of the world and in the complex and classic issues of relations between state and market." - Kerstin Sahlin, Professor in Business Administration, Public Management, at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Autorentext
Paula Blomqvist, Uppsala University, Sweden Pauline Cholez, University of Grenoble, France Andrew Crane, York University, Canada Steven Gerencser, Indiana University, USA Boris Holzer, Bielefeld University, Germany Uwafiokun Idemudia, York University, Canada Dirk Matten, York University, Canada Jeremy Moon, Nottingham University Business School, UK Fabrizio Panozzo, Ca' Foscari University Venice and Freie Universität Bozen, Italy Pascale Trompette, University of Grenoble, France

Inhalt
Editor Preface Series Editor Preface 1. Introduction: Corporate Citizenship and the Political Role of the Corporation; Karin Svedberg Helgesson and Ulrika Mörth 2. Corporations and Clientelism: The Problem of Democratic Accountability for Corporate Citizenship; Steven Gerencser 3. Citizenship, Identity and the Corporation: Exploring New Avenues of Political Mediation; Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten and Jeremy Moon 4. Inadvertent Citizens: Corporate Citizenship and Moral Actorhood; Boris Holzer 5. Standards, Triple Bottom Lines and Balanced Scorecards: Shaping the Metaphor of Corporate Citizenship with Calculative Infrastructures; Fabrizio Panozzo 6. Revisiting Corporate Citizenship Theory and Practice from the Perspective of Local Communities in Africa: Lessons from Nigeria; Uwafiokun Idemudia 7. Various Corporate Citizenships in Bottom of the Pyramid Markets; Céline Cholez and Pascal Trompette 8. Citizenship, Choice, and Social Equality in Welfare Services; Paula Blomqvist 9. Corporate Citizens and 'the War on Terror'; Karin Svedberg Helgesson and Ulrika Mörth 10. Conclusions: The Political Role of Corporations; Karin Svedberg Helgesson and Ulrika Mörth