'Free us up so we can be responsible!' The co-evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility and neo-liberalism in the UK, 1977-2010

Kinderman, Daniel

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“…Voluntary product labeling and certification schemes often associated with neoliberalism, such a "sweat free" apparel, "fair trade" food products, and "sustainably harvested" lumber are clear and well-theorized examples of private regulation (Bartley 2007;Guthman 2007;Vogel 2008;Kinderman 2011;Besky 2013;Locke 2013). These institutions indirectly 'coerce' actors-often firms-into complying with particular standards or practices not by issuing direct authoritative commands and threatening penalties, but because a "market for virtue" (Vogel 2005) and the moral status of particular exchanges (Fourcade and Healy 2007) creates indirect, structuralcontextual incentives for compliance, including reputational and status benefits for firms, higher profit margins, and the possibility of staving off more authoritative forms of state-led regulation (Walker and Rea 2014;Kaplan 2015).…”

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Theorizing command-and-commodify regulation: the case of species conservation banking in the United States

Rea

2017

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State-directed but market-oriented forms of regulation, especially environmental examples like cap-and-trade and ecological offsetting, have proliferated in the past two decades, but sociologists have been slow to theorize these broad institutional shifts. This article offers a framework for explaining these processes of regulatory marketization. First, I argue that institutions of this sort are examples of what I call command-and-commodify regulation, a mode of regulation that distinctively hybridizes economic and authoritative dimensions of power. Second, I explain how and why one example of command-and-commodify regulation, species conservation banking, emerged and remained concentrated in California, but did not so easily develop in other American states. Finally, abstracting from the case, I argue that the concept of market reconstruction is useful for developing a more general theory of the ways that social conflicts and mobilization reconfigure regulatory power, and thus give rise to new modes of regulation. Together, a theory of command-and-commodify regulation and market reconstruction may be useful for explaining the development of a wide variety of environmentally focused and other regulatory institutions.

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Theorizing command-and-commodify regulation: the case of species conservation banking in the United States

Rea

2017

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“…As a result, firms are expected to be better equipped to identify and acknowledge strategic opportunities within their environments because of the absence of social and environmental restraints imposed by government (Kinderman, 2012;Vallentin and Murillo, 2012). However, the consequences of these macro-level principles at the micro level (i.e., at the level of individuals rather than firms) are rarely discussed in the CSR literature, reflecting the more general tendency in the CSR literature not to address CSR as thoroughly with respect to organizational policies.…”

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‘We are all responsible now’: Governmentality and responsibilized subjects in corporate social responsibility

Siltaoja

Malin

Pyykkönen

2014

Management Learning

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The corporate social responsibility promise is a fascinating one: companies are able and willing to regulate themselves, and self-regulation is manifested in collaborative efforts that promote individual well-being. Yet, this macro-level promise has a silenced flip side in organizational contexts. We argue that corporate social responsibility has diffused the idea of employee responsibilization into organizational environments, so it entails a dual role for employees: employees become both the objects and the subjects of corporate social responsibility. The primary aim of this article is thus to develop a theoretical understanding that acknowledges the role of individual members of the organization in communicating and defining corporate social responsibility while taking into consideration the well-being perspective. We draw on critical management studies as a form of counter-conduct towards mainstream theorizing and seek an alternative to Freirean critical dialogue as a tool to promote empowerment alongside ethics in corporate social responsibility.

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“…Contemporary literature identifies a national political-economic context to CSR strategy by investigating the effect of national variation on selections of firms that occupy positions in corporate best practice rankings of CSR activities, issue sustainability reports or participate in CSR-focused business associations (Aguilera et al, 2006;Gjolberg, 2009;Jackson and Apostolakou, 2010;Kang and Moon, 2011;Kinderman, 2009Kinderman, , 2011Maignan and Ralston, 2002;Midttun, et al 2006;Steen Knudsen and Brown, 2011). These national varieties accordingly signify different versions of capitalism that vary with regard to such characteristics as industrial relations, corporate governance, inter-firm relations and state intervention in the economy.…”

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The Embededness of Responsible Business Practice: National Institutional Environments and Corporate Social Responsibility

Fransen

2012

SSRN Journal

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'Free us up so we can be responsible!' The co-evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility and neo-liberalism in the UK, 1977-2010

Cited by 204 publications

References 21 publications

Theorizing command-and-commodify regulation: the case of species conservation banking in the United States

Theorizing command-and-commodify regulation: the case of species conservation banking in the United States

‘We are all responsible now’: Governmentality and responsibilized subjects in corporate social responsibility

The Embededness of Responsible Business Practice: National Institutional Environments and Corporate Social Responsibility

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