RT Article
T1 Corporate Social Responsibility as Subsidiary Co-Responsibility: A Macroeconomic Perspective
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 99
IS 1
SP 115
OP 128
A1 Aßländer, Michael Stefan 1963-
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785641077
AB Recent discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) mainly focuses on two aspects of CSR: from a technical perspective, CSR aims to improve ethical standards in the organizational decision-making process, and should guarantee that management practices are in accordance with commonly accepted standards of behavior. From a political perspective, CSR describes corporate engagement with ecological and social issues that extend beyond the firm’s economic activities. The latter perspective in particular leaves unclear whether such corporate contributions to solve environmental and societal problems should be seen as voluntary additional services or whether corporations bear specific duties in this field. Based on the tenet of subsidiarity derived from Catholic thought, this article emphasizes that the common interpretation of CSR should be extended by a third perspective that addresses corporations as intermediate actors bearing specific subsidiary co-responsibilities in society.
K1 Catholic encyclicals
K1 ISO 26000
K1 Co-responsibility
K1 Globalization
K1 social market economy
K1 Subsidiarity
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
DO 10.1007/s10551-011-0744-x