CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES ON BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
is pleased to announce the publication of:
The Rise of Global Corporate Social Responsibility:
Mining and the Spread of Global Norms
By
Hevina S. Dashwood
Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Book Description:
Combining insights from international relations theory with institutional approaches from organization theory and public
policy, this book provides a complete explanation for the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR), showing how
global norms influenced CSR adoption in the mi! ning industry. Global normative developments have clearly had an important
influence on major mining companies: by the mid-2000s, the majority had adopted sustainable development as a normative
frame for their CSR policies and practices. However, there is significant variation between firms in terms of the
timing, degree of commitment, and the willingness to assume a leadership role in promoting global standards for the
mining industry. The author finds that attributes internal to the firm, including the critical role of leadership, and
the way in which management responds to the institutional context and operational challenges faced in different
countries are important influences on CSR adoption and important factors explaining variation.
Advance praise:
'Hevina Dashwood provides a compelling explanation of forces behind the growing adoption of CSR norms among global
mining firms in recent decades. Both theore! tically grounded and empirically rich, The Rise of Global Corp! orate Social
Responsibility highlights the roles of global norms and institutional factors that played a role in this important
development.'
----- Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo
'An important analysis of how global norms affect management decision-making. Dashwood offers a framework for
understanding how to link changes in the global normative environment with developments in corporate behavior and
applies this to one of the industries that on the surface would seem the least likely to change - the mining sector.
Through three in-depth case studies of individual mining corporations, based on extensive interviews and research, she
traces the processes by which these firms adopted more socially and environmentally responsible policies over time. This
book provides us with insight and evidence on the significant changes that are occurring in the relationship between
global corporations, and the global society within which they! are embedded.'
----- Virginia Haufler, Director, Global Communities, University of Maryland
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Professor, Department of Political Science
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