Corporations and Citizenship (Business, Value Creation, and Society)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 15
Why corporations and citizenship?......Page 16
What is citizenship?......Page 19
Connecting citizenship with corporations: the metaphorical, the material and the normative......Page 21
Corporations and citizenship relationships......Page 23
Corporations and citizenship reconfigurations......Page 25
Corporations and citizenship in question......Page 26
Conclusion......Page 27
Notes......Page 28
Part A Corporations and citizenship relationships......Page 29
Introduction......Page 31
Extant uses of corporate citizenship......Page 32
Equivalent view of corporate citizenship......Page 35
Extended view of corporate citizenship......Page 36
Can corporations be citizens with regard to status and entitlements?......Page 37
Corporations as ‘de facto citizens’......Page 39
Corporations as ‘quasi citizens’......Page 41
Corporations are made up of individual humans......Page 42
Corporations can have a civic identity......Page 43
Corporations have a distinct functional identity......Page 44
Summarizing corporation’s citizenship status and entitlements......Page 45
Civic Republicanism......Page 46
Participation through pressure group activity......Page 49
Participation in governing......Page 51
Developmental democracy......Page 53
Deliberative democracy......Page 55
Corporations as citizens: evaluative issues......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 61
Notes......Page 62
Introduction......Page 64
A citizenship perspective on the corporate ‘takeover’ of governmental functions......Page 66
Corporations and the governance of citizenship......Page 67
Shifts in the governing of citizenship......Page 68
The division of labour between corporations and governments......Page 73
Modes and mechanisms of corporate involvement in governance......Page 75
Where governments cease to govern citizenship......Page 78
Where citizenship has not yet been governed......Page 80
Where governing of citizenship may be beyond the reach of the nation state government......Page 82
Corporate roles in governing of citizenship......Page 84
Evaluating the corporate governance of citizenship......Page 85
Corporations and the capacity to govern......Page 86
Corporate power and citizenship......Page 90
The changing nature of citizenship......Page 93
Obligations of corporations in governmental roles......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 99
Notes......Page 100
Introduction......Page 102
Understanding stakeholders as citizens......Page 104
Citizenship as a metaphor for stakeholder relations......Page 107
Key themes in stakeholder relations from a citizenship perspective......Page 111
Shareholders as citizens......Page 114
Employees as citizens......Page 118
Consumers as citizens......Page 124
Suppliers as citizens......Page 129
Civil society as citizens......Page 130
Conclusion......Page 133
Notes......Page 136
Part B Corporations and citizenship reconfigurations......Page 137
Introduction......Page 139
Social identities as a basis for citizenship identity......Page 141
Corporations reflecting citizen identity......Page 145
Corporations enabling citizenship identity......Page 149
Corporations inhibiting citizenship identity......Page 155
Conclusion......Page 160
Notes......Page 162
Introduction......Page 163
Citizenship and the environment......Page 165
Ecological citizenship as intimate connection......Page 166
Ecological citizenship as an extension of rights and obligations......Page 169
Ecological citizenship as a new non-territorial obligation......Page 171
Responsibilities for exporting liberal citizenship......Page 173
Rethinking the stakeholder set......Page 176
Reconfiguring the community of the corporate citizen......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 180
Note......Page 182
Introduction......Page 183
Globalization and cosmopolitan citizenship......Page 184
Legal cosmopolitanism......Page 187
Political cosmopolitanism......Page 188
Transnational communities......Page 189
Post-nationalism......Page 190
Cosmopolitan citizenship and human rights......Page 191
Corporations as drivers of globalization......Page 193
Corporations from the perspective of legal cosmopolitanism......Page 198
Corporations from the perspective of political cosmopolitanism......Page 200
Corporations from the perspective of transnational communities......Page 202
Corporations from the perspective of post-nationalism......Page 204
Summarizing the diversity of lenses on corporations in a cosmopolitan setting......Page 206
Countervailing powers? Global movements critical of corporations and global capitalism......Page 207
Global corporate citizenship?......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 213
Notes......Page 214
Introduction......Page 215
Understanding the corporation......Page 216
The potential of the three citizenship relations......Page 217
Reconfigurations of citizenship and the corporation......Page 218
Towards new responsibilities?......Page 219
Dangers and limitations......Page 221
Understanding citizenship......Page 223
Admitting corporations into the citizenship arena......Page 224
Where do we go from here? Towards a new research agenda for corporations and citizenship......Page 226
Note......Page 228
References......Page 229
Index......Page 254