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THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 245-263Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1111135
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business; market-based development; poverty reduction; corporate social responsibility; Corporate community development; agency; community perspective
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- Royal Society of New Zealand [MAU1206]
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Globally there is an increasing focus on the private sector as a significant development actor. One element of the private sector's role emphasised within this new focus has been corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, whereby the private sector claims to contribute directly to local development. There is now a substantial body of work on CSR but it is a literature that is mostly polarised, dominated by concerns from the corporate perspective, and not adequately theorised. Corporations typically do development differently from NGOs and donors, yet the nature and effects of these initiatives are both under-researched and under-conceptualised. In this paper we argue that viewing CSR initiatives through a community development lens provides new insights into their rationale and effects. Specifically we develop a conceptual framework that draws together agency and practice-centred approaches in order to illuminate the processes and relationships that underpin corporate community development initiatives.
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