Corporate Responsibility

Kenneth E. Goodpaster holds the David and Barbara Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics in the Opus College of Business at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota.

A landmark history of corporate responsibility, showing the changes in corporate power and business behaviour since the mid-eighteenth century.

About the authors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: the corporation in the public square; Part I. The Seeds of Corporate Responsibility: 1. Foundations of capitalism and the birth of the corporation (1776-1880); 2. The turbulent rise of the corporation (1880-1900); 3. The Progressive Era and a new business-government relationship (1900-18); 4. The corporation's case for social responsibility (1918-29); 5. The corporation and national crisis (1929-45); Part II. Corporate Responsibility Comes of Age: 6. Corporate legitimacy affirmed (1945-63); 7. A revolution of rising expectations (1963-73); 8. Managing corporate responsibility (1973-81); Part III. Taking Account of Corporate Responsibility: 9. Stakeholders and stockholders (1981-9); 10. Corporate responsibility institutionalizes and globalizes (1989-2001); 11. A new social contract for the twenty-first century (2001-11); Conclusion: patterns and prospects; Endnotes; References; List of plates; Index.