Corporate Social Responsibility as Subsidiary Co-Responsibility: A Macroeconomic Perspective

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...

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主要作者: Aßländer, Michael Stefan 1963- (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: 2011
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, 卷: 99, 發布: 1, Pages: 115-128
Further subjects:B social market economy
B 企業社會責任
B Globalization
B ISO 26000
B Catholic encyclicals
B Co-responsibility
B Subsidiarity
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總結: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.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0744-x