Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility: Introduction

2013

The twin focus of this paper is to, on the one hand, basically identify some important and knowledgeable academic and practical works from the past decades upon the concept of Corporate Social

International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2020

The absence of consensus on what should constitute Corporate Social Responsibility has inhibited consistent CSR legislation around the world. This paper poses a fundamental question on what should constitute CSR and what should be the nature of CSR regulation? By constructing the boundaries of CSR, the paper offers scope for consistently developing CSR regulation around the world. It construes CSR as consisting of business relation and impact relation, and demonstrates that these are intertwined with legal responsibilities of business and, consequentially, with accountability. It accomplishes this by establishing the obligatory nature of responsibilities using the lens of ethical and legal jurisprudence. This new approach towards CSR recasts it as an obligatory responsibility that is linked to accountability. Furthermore, the framework provides a foundation for consistent development of CSR regulation across different countries that can lead to effective discharge of corporates' social responsibilities.

BAU Journal - Creative Sustainable Development

Recent years have been marked by a remarkable decline in trust and confidence in the economy as well as in the business community, as a growing number of economic scandals are being reported by observers and whistleblowers. The need for better governance and higher ethical standards has become a focal issue for governments, regulators, supervisors and business actors themselves. In this context, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has come to play an increasingly important role in business and corporate regulation, paving the way for ethical business practices, as the concept of corporate social responsibility encompasses key components of economic growth, social equity and ecology. Although CSR was once considered a form of corporate self-regulation, governments became more and more involved in drawing up new rules governing the economy and the business sector. However, this trend is far from uniform, and the sets of regulations adopted and implemented so far across the world range from comprehensive to inexistent. As a result, the extent to which private companies will adjust their policies depends largely on where their activities are located.

2010

Van dit proefschrift is een handelseditie verschenen in de serie Uitgaven vanwege het Instituut voor Ondernemingsrecht (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

2022

Corporate Social Responsibility has great significance because due to it the corporate bodies not only consider the interest of the stakeholders but also consider the environmental, economic, and social impact of their actions. CSR has a broad spectrum and it is a ―voluntary action‖ that the companies or businesses take to address the issues related to ―corporate irresponsible behavior‖ regarding social issues including labour, environmental, abuses of human rights. However, the piece inspects CSR as the mechanism for business operations, from the manufacturing and delivery of services or products to generating and promoting the interaction with the stakeholders of the company in a way to protect and encourage moral values or ethical conduct, legal requirements, and social expectations. For this purpose, the paper discusses the relationship between CSR and corporate governance to find the convergence between both. CSR in current times is weakly promoted due to the fact that the init...