Introduction : the intellectual crisis of CSR / Peter Utting and José Carlos Marques -- CSR and changing modes of governance : towards corporate noblesse oblige? / Colin Crouch -- Wal-martization and CSR-ization in developing countries / Ngai-Ling Sum -- Corporate social responsibility in a neoliberal age / Paddy Ireland and Renginee G. Pillay -- Linking corporate social responsibility and social policy in Zambia / Ndangwa Noyoo -- Business, corporate responsibility and poverty reduction / Michael Blowfield -- Transnational corporations and poverty reduction : strategic and regional variations / Rob van Tulder -- Cross-sector partnership as an approach to inclusive development / Ruth Findlay-Brooks, Wayne Visser and Thurstan Wright -- Growing sustainable business in Eastern Africa : the potential and limits of partnerships for development / Catia Gregoratti -- Private food governance : implications for social sustainability and democratic legitimacy / Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni -- Spaces of contestation : the governance of industry's environmental performance in Durban, South Africa / James Van Alstine -- Challenging governance in global commodity chains : the case of transnational activist campaigns for better work conditions / Florence Palpacuer.

xv, 309 p. : charts, graph, tables ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780230576445