Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing and Emerging Markets Institutions, Actors and Sustainable Development

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a tool for public and private institutions to promote sustainable development in developing and emerging markets. This work brings together contributors from a variety of fields and international perspectives to assess and improve the effectiveness of CSR by addressing the following questions: What are the linkages between CSR and sustainable development? What does CSR mean for developing or emerging economies and in what ways does this deviate from orthodoxies and universalist approaches? What institutional factors and actors influence the effectiveness of CSR in developing and emerging economies? How can developing and emerging economies promote a flexible, diverse and reconstructed form of CSR that leads to inclusive and sustainable development? This book should be read by anyone interested understanding what normative factors, theoretical models, policy strategies, and corporate practices best facilitate effective CSR and sustainable development.

• Contains theoretical, legal, socio-economic, historical, empirical, and inter-disciplinary approaches
• Challenges the application of dominant neoliberal CSR approaches to developing and emerging economies
• Businesses, policymakers, and scholars will understand and be confident in applying what works for developing and emerging economies