Introduction

Diane Swanson and Bill Frederick in their original piece in 2003 asked if business schools were the ‘silent partners in corporate crime’. Because, as Ed Freeman and others have observed, academic journals on corporate citizenship and social responsibility do not tend to be read by practitioners in business, and certainly not in the senior echelons, the main discussion takes place in business schools and among scholars. The most important point is one that might signal the end of journals such as the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, or at least its renaming, and that is that there is a category crisis in the area indicated by the ‘collapsing of the easy binary between business and government’. Most business and management schools have tended to teach the prevailing neoliberal orthodoxy and uphold the current dominant model of capitalism and incorporation.