Fear and loathing in the JCC: unleashing the monster of 'new corporate citizenship theory' to confront category crisis

Official URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351284202

In this chapter the authors discusses all the aspects they disagree with in Jones and Haigh’s article. It is clear that much of Jones and Haigh’s critique rests on a description of the authors supposed ‘unarticulated assumptions’, or what they have left ‘unsaid’. Although Jones and Haigh helpfully offer to speak for the authors regarding these assumptions, their creation of ‘new corporate citizenship (NCC) theory’ is largely unrecognisable from the conceptualisation that the authors, its supposed architects, actually provide in their article. The interesting thing about Jones and Haigh’s paper is that they actually do not really disagree all that much about the underlying phenomenon of private authority increasingly extending into the public sphere of citizenship that forms the subject of the authors' article. In fact, in one of the better-researched and -argued passages in their paper they provide a fairly comprehensive account of changes in citizenship from the political to the economic realm.