A History of Socially Responsible Business, c.1600–1950

1. The History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards a Comparative and Institutional Contribution
David Chan Smith, William A. Pettigrew

2.
Leadership
and the Social Agendas of the Seventeenth-Century English Trading Corporation
William A. Pettigrew, Aske Laursen Brock

3. Socially Responsible and Responsive Business in Seventeenth-Century England
Edmond J. Smith

4. Profit and Surety: The British Chartered Trading Companies and the State
Michael Wagner

5. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rise of the Non-profit Sector in America
Robert E. Wright

6. Local Concerns, Global Impact: The Social Structures and Influence of Early Anglo-American Firms
at Home and Abroad, 1815–1840
Emily Buchnea

7. The Distant Shareholder: Attenuated Investment and the Diffusion of Social Concerns
Janette Rutterford

8. Canadian Regional and National Business Elites in 1912: Who Was Connected, Who Wasn’t and Why?
Jon Mackay

9. Trust, Reputation and Regulation: Securities Markets in Europe, the USA, and Japan Before 1914
Leslie Hannah

10. Adolf Berle’s Critique of US Corporate Interests in the Caribbean Basin
Jason Russell, Andrew Smith, Kevin D. Tennent

11. Social(ist) Responsibility and Communist Management in Postwar Central Europe
Philip Scranton

12. Afterword: The History (and Future History) of Socially Responsible Business
Rod Lohin

Keywords: Finance, Financial History, Corporate Social Responsibility