Territories of Social Responsibility

CSR is fragile if conceived only at the organizational level or driven only by leadership. Many writers deal with aspects of social responsibility, but most deal with it as a kind of organizational and voluntary initiative. Few address the wider policy agenda. The international contributors to Territories of Social Responsibility form a policy network contributing to studies on the concept of a multi-actor, multilevel and territorial approach to social responsibility and governance, oriented towards global, regional or local development and equity goals. A new conceptual model in this book sees CSR embedded in institutional and legal frameworks that can be expressed into the social processes of education, governance, the development of civil society, and policy making. This all amounts to a renovation of the existing perspectives on the concept of social responsibility. This book integrates conceptual and empirical contributions and opens a research and policy agenda for the future.