RT Article
T1 Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 63
IS 5
SP 1184
OP 1198
A1 Jönsson, Elin
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/186901541X
AB In recent years, the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has undergone a shift towards hardening, illustrated by a wave of new mandatory and state-based regulation. This article aims to understand the dynamic behind this shift, by studying struggles for regulatory hardening in the Swedish Parliament. Drawing on a critical theory of contradictions, it proposes an understanding of CSR as a contradictory social formation, which structures the parliamentary struggles. Moreover, it suggests that although the hardening trend could amount to a crisis of the traditional understanding of CSR, politicians remain embedded in a neoliberal logic of regulation. The article ends with a call for research to continue to explore alternative roads towards minimizing corporate harm in the future.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 1196-1198
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
K1 Regulation
K1 hardening
K1 political debates
K1 corporate harm
DO 10.1093/bjc/azac082