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SUMMARY:Corporate Social Responsibility and Business’ Contribution to Go
 vernance in Areas of Regulatory Void - Dr. Christian Thauer\, Free Univers
 ity of Berlin
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CONTACT:Nicole Janz
DESCRIPTION:*Seminar Room B\, not SCR as usual*\n\nIn the past 20 years\, 
 transition countries in the South and East – such as the BRIC states (Br
 azil\, Russia\, India\, China) and other G20 countries – have experience
 d\nimpressive economic growth. While these countries are comparatively str
 ong in the international system and vis-à-vis their societies\, their int
 ense economic growth is often not balanced by sufficiently strict social\,
  health and environmental regulations\nor by comprehensive service and com
 mon good provision. It is in this context that political scientists have b
 ecome intrigued by the phenomenon of corporate social\nresponsibility (csr
 ) as the attempt to close such gaps in governance. Why and under which con
 ditions do firms make an attempt to engage in csr and contribute to govern
 ance in areas where the state is limited or weak? And under which conditio
 ns may such attempts be successful\, and when do they fail? The talk\nmake
 s the case for the importance of paying attention to the internal dynamics
  of business in order to understand why and under which conditions firms e
 ngage in csr.\nThe argument is that csr assists decision-makers in firms t
 o resolve managerial dilemmas. A managerial dilemma is a situation whereby
  the execution of\nmanagement’s decisions transforms the intra-organizat
 ional mode of social coordination from a hierarchy to one in which manager
 s become dependent on\, and vulnerable to the behavior of subordinates. I 
 argue that it is in these situations that corporate decision-makers introd
 uce csr in their attempt to avoid the foreseeable loss of control and orga
 nizational efficiency. The talk illustrates this argument with\nempirical 
 examples and in this context also discusses factors that make attempts by 
 business to contribute to governance a success.
LOCATION:Seminar Room B\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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