This volume examines research in corporate social performance and policy. Topics covered in this volume include: political strategies and industry environments; evaluating corporate claims of social responsibility and self-deception; and, interviews with the founders of the Sim Oral History Project.

Since winning a national book award in 1966, this classic , authoritative text has continued to cover both the major research findings of business and societal relations and the thoughts and actions of business practitioners who have struggled both successfully and unsuccessfully with tough human and social problems. The eighth edition covers many important emerging developments that will shape the organizational, social, and public policy environments in which students will soon live and work. Many important topic areas have been substantially revised, including ecological and natural resources issues, global challenges, and the complex relationship between science, technology, and the media in the age of information. Two new coauthors, Anne Lawrence (San Jose State University) and James Weber (Duquesne University), bring valuable experience and perspectives to the author team. Ten cases (five new) bring issues to life. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The modern corporation is an institution of enormous economic power and social impact. Corporations have grown in size and numbers all over the world because of their ability to mobilize productive resources and create new wealth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Part of a series which examines research in corporate social performance and policy, this volume focuses on market politics and social performance. Topics include business involvement in public education; and environmental and organizational predictors of structure and process; among others...read more

Product Description: This innovative casebook was written by the originators of the successful pilot program that focused on how environmental issues weave themselves through all aspects of business.

Product Description: Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative to the notion that firms have unlimited accountability...read more