Looking Good and Doing Good Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Power

Name: Looking Good and Doing Good Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Power
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9780253332370

ISBN-10: 0253332370

ISBN-13: 9780253332370

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jerome L. Himmelstein

List price: $29.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Out of stock

We're sorry. This item is currently unavailable.

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

American corporations give away several billion dollars a year to a range of philanthropic causes with the hope of improving their public images among consumers, employees, and the general public. They certainly donOtilde;t try to be political or controversial. Nonetheless corporate philanthropy has come under fire in recent years, especially from the Right, because of grants to Planned Parenthood, Hispanic groups, innovative art, and Ograve;liberalOacute; public policy groups. Looking Good and Doing Good examines why corporate philanthropy has become politicized, how corporations respond to controversy about their donations, and what the confilcts tell us about corporate philanthropy and…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Hanging Up on Planned Parenthood



The Making of Corporate Philanthropy



"A Wonderful Job": The Workaday Worldview of Corporate Philanthropists



"The Struggle between Looking Good and Doing Good": The Dilemmas of Corporate Philanthropy



Corporate Giving under Fire I: Planned Parenthood



Corporate Giving under Fire II: The Capital Research Center



Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Politics



Conclusion: An Economic Act with Social and Political Dimensions


Notes


Bibliography


Index