Corporate Irresponsibility and Corporate Social Responsibility: Competing Realities

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Emerald Article: Corporate irresponsibility and corporate social responsibility: competing realities Brian Jones, Ryan Bowd, Ralph Tench

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To cite this document: Brian Jones, Ryan Bowd, Ralph Tench, (2009),"Corporate irresponsibility and corporate social responsibility: competing realities", Social Responsibility Journal, Vol. 5 Iss: 3 pp. 300 - 310 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17471110910977249 Downloaded on: 14-10-2012 References: This document contains references to 45 other documents Citations: This document has been cited by 3 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com

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Keywords Corporate social responsibility, Business ethics Paper type Research paper

Introduction
Corporations, their activities and governance have long been of interest to management and social scientists (see for example, Sampson, 1983). As it has gained a higher profile on the political, economic and business agendas in recent years (see for example, www.csr.gov.uk; Commission of the European Communities, 2001, 2002), corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received increased attention from academics (see Whetten et al., 2002; Arpan, 2005; Evuleocha, 2005; Riese, 2007; Birch, 2008). Corporate governance can be defined in a narrow and a broad way. For those who define it narrowly corporate governance is largely concerned with board level management issues. Reporting on the situation in the UK the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (1992, p. 15) described the term as ‘‘the system by which companies are directed and controlled’’. Such a narrow definition, adopting and advocating as it does a top

The authors would like to thank David Crowther and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments in developing this paper.

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