Between Profit-Seeking and Prosociality: Corporate Social Responsibility as Derridean Supplement
This article revolves around the debate surrounding the lack of a coherent definition for corporate social responsibility (CSR). I make use of Jacques Derrida’s theorizing on contested meaning to argue that CSR’s ambiguity is actually necessary in light of its functional role as a “supplement” to co...
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| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 104, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-91 |
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Discourse
B Supplementarity B Corporate social responsibility B Jacques Derrida B Undecidability B Différance |
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