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Socializing Business?1

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Dowie Mark: American Foundations: An investigative history, Cambridge, Mass. and London, The MIT Press, 2001, xl and 320 pp., US$18.95/£11.80. ISBN 0-262-04189-8.
Zadek Simon: The Civil Corporation: the new economy of corporate citizenship, London and Stirling, Virginia, Earthscan, 2001, xiii and 257 pp.,£19.99 ISBN 1 85383 813 6.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Jeremy Moon
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Government and Opposition , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , 2003, pp. 265 - 273
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I am grateful to Ruth Abbey for editorial suggestions.

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2 E.g. Hertz, Noreena, The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy, London, Heineman, 2001 Google Scholar; Klein, Naomi, No Logo, London, Flamingo, 2000 Google Scholar.

3 Hilton, Steve and Gibbon, Giles, Good Business: Your world needs you, London, Texere, 2002, p. 62 Google Scholar.

4 Aaronson, Susan and Reeves, James, Corporate Responsibility in the Global Village: The Role of Public Policy, The National Policy Association, 2002 Google Scholar.

5 Jeucken, Marcel, Sustainable Finance and Banking, p. 2 Google Scholar.

6 e.g. Belgian Enterprise Network for Social Cohesion, Business in the Community (Ireland), Community & Business (the Netherlands), Portuguese Business Network for Social Cohesion.

7 See Moon, Jeremy, ‘The Social Responsibility of Business and New Governance’, Government and Opposition, 37: 3 (2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Rein, Martin, ‘The social policy of the firm’, Policy Sciences, 14: 2 (1982)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Foundations are not, of course, immune from the vicissitudes of business activity in general as their annual grant-giving capacity is a function of, for example, stock exchange, bank, or real estate performance.

10 See Gallie, W. E., ‘Essentially Contested Concepts’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, LVI, pp. 187–98 (1956)Google Scholar. For an extended discussion of CSR as a contested concept see Moon, Jeremy ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: An Overview’ International Directory of Corporate Philanthropy, London, Europa Publications, 2002 Google Scholar.