Progressive Business
An Intellectual History of the Role of Business in American Society
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 November 2015
- ISBN 9780198701033
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 240x171x22 mm
- Weight 588 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book offers a new intellectual history of ideas about reforming capitalism from within. Tracing the emergence of different value systems in the American context, the book offers a fresh perspective on debates about capitalism in the late 19th century and 20th century US
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Today, an increasing number of researchers, citizens, politicians, civil organizations, activists, and corporations are concerned with questions such as: Can the financial rationality of firms be constrained by social concerns? Can the market be reformed 'from within'?
Starting in the post-Civil War period of American industrialization, the book traces the emergence of ideas about reforming businesses in the American context, and the ideological and intellectual disputes about these ideas. This book offers a new historical, critical, and in-depth understanding of ideas that have today become increasingly widespread in debates about: corporate social responsibility, corporate philanthropy, corporate citizenship, social entrepreneurship, creating shared value, doing business and being virtuous at the same time. What underlies this discourse is the claim that corporations can change from 'within' - reforming themselves into being good citizens of society. While there has been much enthusiasm about ideas of restructuring the corporation, and the relationships between business and society, critics have argued that businesses continue to focus exclusively on making money. What neither the overly optimistic nor the overly sceptical typically takes into consideration, however, is the long history of social and humanistic business and management ideas.
This book offers a new intellectual history of ideas about socialising or humanising capitalism from within, and the critiques of these ideas. It introduces the concept of 'progressive business' as an analytical category around which these competing ideas can be arranged and studied. This conceptual innovation will allow the reader to acknowledge remarkable resemblances between present day ideas of corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship, and earlier notions of the soulful corporation, industrial betterment. This will be helpful for gaining new insight into these long-lasting debates about state, business and civil society relationships, and thus for grasping the intellectual background for present-day debates.
Christiansen's work is a welcome contribution in that it explores views of progressive business in different time periods and helps the reader better appreciate those views by also examining the critics of progressive business... It explores necessary territory and should interest business historians and historians of economic thought... Each of his chapters has helpful summary charts that either list the key points of progressive business or juxtaposes the core ideas of progressive business with those of its critics. His conclusion, "Progressive Business and Its Critics in Retrospect," provides a good analysis of the significance of his work.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: An Intellectual History of American Market Reformers and their Critics
O Father, Where Art Thou: The spirit of paternalistic capitalism in the age of the First Great Transformation (1870-1900)
A Corporation Lives in Society: The Invention of Managerial Capitalism in the Age of The New Deal (1935-1960s)
The New Man Wants Your Soul: Critiquing Managerial Capitalism (1945-1960s)
From the Golden Straitjacket to How to Do Well and Do Good: The New Spirit of Entrepreneurial Capitalism (1990s-2000s)
Corporations Are Not Set Up To Be Charities: Critiquing Entrepreneurial Capitalism (1990s-2000s)
Conclusion: Progressive Business and its Critics in Retrospect
