The book explores how the influence by the corporate sector in the
economic interactions globally leads to the international governance
framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law
attributes. Such international soft law regime uniquely influences the
way the legal regime around CSR has shaped up in India. Through
innovative methodology, the analysis of regulatory space and instruments
and the structural framework construe the relationship between state and
corporate sectors. It is necessary to investigate the two-fold
relationship of state and corporate actors. The book takes up a
regulatory, institutional and socio-political investigations through
studying the case of CSR in India in the backdrop of the transformations
taking place in national arena, its international inspirations and
resulting regulatory model that evolve.
How the existing regulatory space is affected? What are the implications
on the regulatory instruments? The pursuit of the answers would also
involve investigation of questions as to how the state-corporate
relationship constructed, construed and conducted post state's
ratification of CSR. What are the reasons of such changes? What
implications do the role of politics and corporate strategies have on
the renewed interest in CSR? The book deals with these aforementioned
aspects. This scholarly work synthesizes political, economic and legal
aspects of the role of the state and corporate sector with narrowly
defined focus of CSR which has the ability to provide a comprehensive
broad-brushed account of the larger framework.
