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  • Paperback: 302 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; Revised Edition edition (4 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844074315
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844074310
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.9 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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'Every field needs its gurus and, in Simon Zadek, corporate accountability has a leading contender for the title.' Corporate Citizenship Briefing

'Just as corporate responsibility is a 'must-do' rather than 'nice-to-do' for our society, The Civil Corporation is a 'must-read' rather than 'nice-to-read' for practitioners and scholars.' Zhiye He, Professor at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, Editor in Chief of the Peking Business Review, Director of the Management Case Center of Peking University

'Simon Zadek is a visionary of an unusually practical sort. His ideas invariably are cutting edge but he is able to relate them to the most immediate concerns of those who run - and run to keep up with - the modern corporation. The Civil Corporation enables us to move beyond isolated experiments towards a more fundamental shift in the accountability and purpose of business and its role in global governance.' John G. Ruggie, Professor of International Affairs, Director of the Center for Business and Government, Harvard University, and UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights

'The Civil Corporation breaks new and critical ground on the impact of the business and society debate on the dynamics of business strategy. I single it out as a must read for all scholars and practitioners who study and manage businesses that seriously aim at blending societal and economic welfare in their decisions and actions.' Maurizio Zollo, Shell Fellow in Business and the Environment, and Associate Professor of Strategy, INSEAD

'The intricate analysis ... makes a powerful case for businesses to reassess their values, relationships and processes' Financial Times

'One of the leading thinkers in the area of corporations and their relationship with society.' International Labour Review

'Broad-ranging, high-minded, and leading edge.' Future Survey 'Makes a powerful case for businesses to reassess their values, relationships and processes.' Financial Times, 31st October, 2001

Professor Zhiye He, Professor at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University, Editor in Chief of the Peking Business Review, Director of the Management Case Center of Peking University

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Wholly Mammoth 2 Sep 2005
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The topic of this book is large, so admittedly it is difficult to cover it all in one volume. Unfortionately, the part of the topic which is covered is unbearably wholly and leaves the reader with little real insight. The book's academic footprints may be large, but they seem to be leading us into the fog.
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This book is about the way businesses can and should be a greater force for good in the world. The book is one of the best around on the subject of corporate social responsibility -- unafraid to challenge received wisdom, sacred cows and wishful thinking, the book is rigourous and clearly written. Simon Zadek outlines the challenges, the practical solutions that are being developed and the limitations and the problems remaining for the burgeoning corporate social responsibility movement. This book fizzes with ideas and examples.
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Where as Henriques looks at one aspect of corporate responsibility, Simon Zadek from Accountability, looks at the whole role of corporations in society. Since the 1950's their has been an economic argument that the free market and the corporations are its building blocks, if left to themselves, will provide the most efficient solutions to human needs. This theory, or belief, reached its pinnacle during the years of Thatcher and Reagan, Margaret Thatcher even famously proclaimed `There is no such thing as society There are individual men and women, and there are families.' For the grandfather of modern free market thinking, Milton Friedman a responsible business was one that sought to make as much profit as possible. In his world it was the role of business to make money, and the role of governments to stay out of the way, and merely provide the legislative framework to allow business to do it job. Today in a world of climate change, unbalanced trade, Enron and Northern Rock the failures of the market are all too obvious. However the ability, and willingness, of politicians to curb the excesses of the business sector is increasingly limited. In an age of outsourced production and multi-national companies just trying to actually find out who is doing what and where is complicated enough. However climate change is a classic case where governments, and international institutions such as the United Nations and the European Union are trying to deal with the clear market failures of business to address the long term issues of the environment.
What Zadek argues is that the old view that there is business on one hand and government on the other no longer corresponds to reality, business is partly government. Just as government is held responsible by voters business is now held responsible for its actions, not juts by its shareholders but by all its stakeholders, not least its customers. This means that solely seeking to maximize profit regardless of other concerns will not serve the full interest of corporations in the future. The Civil Corporation is an investigation, and ultimately an action plan for how companies can deal with, and profit from, their increasing role in society.
It remains the best book in its field of Corporate Social Responsibility.
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