‘Uplift and empower’: The market, morality and corporate responsibility on South Africa's platinum belt

Producing “global” corporate subjects in post-Mao China: Management consultancy, culture and corporate social responsibility

“…Second, I demonstrate that corporate ethicizing, although often characterized as an extra-financial disposition, 5 is subsumed into the work of making "engaged employees"-defined as those who are productive of shareholder return. Hence, my analysis substantiates Rajak's observation that CSR is not conceived as a "moral bolt-on" to capitalism as usual, but rather the integration of ethical principles and praxis into corporations' core business (Rajak 2008).…”

A corporate responsibility? The constitution of fly-in, fly-out mining companies as governance partners in remote, mine-affected localities

“…Instead, they represent philanthropic gestures aimed, primarily, at keeping the community 'on side'. In this sense, the relations of rule established between mining companies and local communities resemble a form of 'patronage' (Abercrombie and Hills, 1976;Goodell, 1985) based on structurally differentiated access to resources between the two parties, but nevertheless underpinned by a degree of reciprocity -in this case, financial support in exchange for legitimacy and community goodwill (see Rajak, 2008 for a similar point in South Africa).…”

Detachment as a corporate ethic

“…A growing body of literature shows how CSR advances and entrenches neoliberal capitalism by "embedding social relations in economic processes" (Shamir 2004(Shamir , 2008, naturalizing the role of market actors as the stewards and arbiters of justice (Blowfield and Dolan 2008) and reproducing North-South relationships of dependency and subordination (Rajak 2008). In this critique, corporate codes of conduct and systems of inspection are agents of abstraction and virtualism (Carrier and Miller 1998;Miller 1998;Strathern 2000Strathern , 2002.…”