Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Corporate social responsibility's contemporary controversies and architecture -- pt. 2. Corporate social responsibility's regulatory maps and options -- pt. 3. Corporate social responsibility's applications and futures.

Professor Bryan Horrigan spans subjects as diverse and topical as global corporate responsibility and governance debates, practical guidelines for responsible businesses and their professional advisers, governmental roles in corporate social responsibility, corporations and human rights, and the new era of "enlightened shareholder value". He also highlights an emerging transnational and comparative body of law, regulation, and practice on corporate social responsibility. Illustrated throughout with meaningful controversies and examples, the book also highlights the major recent global developments in corporate social responsibility already this century, focusing especially on Europe, the UK, North America, and Australasia, and charting its future regulatory and research directions worldwide.