Geography
Conceptualising corporate community development
Document Type
Article
Abstract
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.
This is the author manuscript accepted for publication and has undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process.
Publication Title
Third World Quarterly
Publication Date
2016
Volume
37
Issue
2
First Page
245
Last Page
263
ISSN
0143-6597
DOI
10.1080/01436597.2015.1111135
Keywords
agency, business, community perspective, Corporate community development, corporate social responsibility, market-based development, poverty reduction
Repository Citation
Banks, Glenn; Scheyvens, Regina; McLennan, Sharon; and Bebbington, Anthony J., "Conceptualising corporate community development" (2016). Geography. 451.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/451
Creative Commons License
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Copyright Conditions
Upon publication, must link to publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1111135 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third World Quarterly on January 11, 2016, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1111135.
