Researching Corporate Social Responsibility Communication: Themes, Opportunities and Challenges

Corporate social responsibility: Challenges and opportunities for trade unionists

C social responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a signifi cant subject of public policy, in many countries as well as internationally. Considered by some to be “the business issue for the twenty-fi rst century”, CSR is assuming an increasing part of the larger debates over both globalization and sustainable development. There is no universally agreed defi nition of CSR. Differing perceptions of CS...

Towards CSR 2.0 - Potentials and Challenges of Web 2.0 for Corporate Social Responsibility Communication

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the “psychology and economics” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, soc...

Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

The ethics we find in companies contains the same elements as the ethics in the socio-economic context in which they operate. The aspirations and ethical levels of companies operating in certain countries differ substantially from those of companies operating in other areas, where the defence of the environment, social welfare, human rights, cooperation, assistance are expected and offered to a...

Understanding the “Corporate” in Corporate Social Responsibility

As progressives confront the problems of the twenty-first century, be they global poverty and increasing income inequality, the scourge of HIV and other diseases, educational disparities, or climate change, an increasingly popular strategy is to enlist corporations in the effort. Even as some progressives continue to launch attacks on corporate misbehavior, often excoriating corporations for ca...