type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This contribution locates the contemporary debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR) and development within ongoing historical struggles to define the appropriate relationship between business and society. It questions the ‘fetishization’ of...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Socially responsible investment (SRI) has long been a strategy for aligning values with investing, through the incorporation of environmental, social and corporate governance factors into investment decision making. Until recently, it has been considered a...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>The current concern with corporate social responsibility must be seen in the context of major shifts in the functioning of the market, the state and civil society, and of the boundaries between them, and in the ways that we envision them. Capitalism has been...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Many discussions of how to improve working conditions around the world — especially in poor and developing regions — suggest that transnational activists could ‘name and shame’ employers, using independent monitors and the threat of consumer boycotts to...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>If Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is often reduced to ‘greenwashing’ for naïve middle-class consumers, is there a more durable force to address excessive profit taking and consequent underdevelopment? While the post-apartheid era in South Africa has...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article gives three reasons why development scholars concerned with civil society should move beyond an enemy perception of the private sector. First, private entrepreneurs are important social actors in development, possessing a variety of motivations and...</p>