Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is in a “pre-paradigmatic phase where there is scant agreement on definitions and terms and no consensus has been reached about what it includes and does not include in its boundaries”. To begin, the field of CSR has its roots in ethics, which stresses the importance of moral corporate conduct. However, business has its biggest impact on society through (1) its own operations and (2) its interactions with suppliers, distributors, and others through the entire value chain to end users. In this context, the social and economic impact of philanthropy is comparatively modest. Most agree that CSR encompass the harms and benefits of a company’s commercial activities on society. Connecting HR to CSR, however, puts a public spotlight on employee relations and focuses companies on what Pfeffer terms “human sustainability.”. Controlled Vocabulary Terms Business ethics; corporate social responsibility; Human resource management; philanthropy

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