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The 2008/9 crisis in global commercial debt markets exposed glaring deficiencies in corporate and regulatory operational and strategic risk management systems. This collection provides an overview of how narrow conceptions of responsibility in corporate law, organizational practice and regulatory dynamics facilitated the crisis.

Includes essays that examine the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the uses that have been made of the language of corporate responsibility. This title traces the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility as a way of understanding and framing the business/society relationship.

The advantages of the discourse of sustainability are that it brings together contemporary economic and moral imperatives in the context of scientific knowledge. Its disadvantages relate to its open-ended content. This title includes essays that reflect these strengths and weaknesses from economic, scientific, social and philosophical viewpoints.

A collection of essential articles and papers that maps the development of the Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) concept, traces the principal debates concerning its contribution to environmental protection, and assesses the evidence as to what extent corporations are seeking to 'do well be doing good'.