Chapter 1 The History of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards a Comparative and Institutional Contribution

Chapter 2 Leadership Leadership and the Social Agendas of the Seventeenth-Century English Trading Corporation

Chapter 3 Socially Responsible and Responsive Business in Seventeenth-Century England

Chapter 4 Profit and Surety: The British Chartered Trading Companies and the State

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

Chapter 7 The Distant Shareholder: Attenuated Investment and the Diffusion of Social Concerns

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

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

Chapter 10 Adolf Berle’s Critique of US Corporate Interests in the Caribbean Basin

Chapter 11 Social(ist) Responsibility and Communist Management in Postwar Central Europe

Chapter 12 Afterword: The History (and Future History) of Socially Responsible Business