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A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rise of the Non-profit Sector in America

A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950: Corporate Social Responsibility and the... [Although the first US business corporations were in part chartered in order to perform some public service or services, that requirement was soon jettisoned as specialized non-profit corporations proved themselves the superior organizational form for the private provision of public services. For- and non-profit corporations fulfilled their respective goals so well, in fact, that governments came to see them as rivals to state power and hence moved to regulate them in sundry ways, including by reimposing CSR requirements on for-profits.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rise of the Non-profit Sector in America

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series
Editors: Pettigrew, William A; Smith, David Chan
Wright, Robert E.
A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950 — Oct 29, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-60145-8
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117 –135
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-60146-5_5
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[Although the first US business corporations were in part chartered in order to perform some public service or services, that requirement was soon jettisoned as specialized non-profit corporations proved themselves the superior organizational form for the private provision of public services. For- and non-profit corporations fulfilled their respective goals so well, in fact, that governments came to see them as rivals to state power and hence moved to regulate them in sundry ways, including by reimposing CSR requirements on for-profits.]

Published: Oct 29, 2017

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