{"product_id":"extracting-accountability-engineers-and-corporate-social-responsibility-engineering-studies-9780262542166","title":"Extracting Accountability Engineers and Corporate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe growing movement toward corporate social responsibility (CSR) urges corporations to promote the well-being of people and the planet rather than the sole pursuit of profit. In \u003ci\u003eExtracting Accountability\u003c\/i\u003e, Jessica Smith investigates how the public accountability of corporations emerges from the everyday practices of the engineers who work for them. Focusing on engineers who view social responsibility as central to their profession, she finds the corporate context of their work prompts them to attempt to reconcile competing domains of accountability—to formal guidelines, standards, and policies; to professional ideals; to the public; and to themselves. Their efforts are complicated by the distributed agency they experience as corporate actors: they are not always authors of their actions and frequently act through others.\u003cbr\u003e  \u0026amp;nbsp","brand":"MIT Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733471637847,"sku":"9780262542166","price":58.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262542166.jpg?v=1720000203","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/extracting-accountability-engineers-and-corporate-social-responsibility-engineering-studies-9780262542166","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}