Changing Companies … Changing World

John Egan and Des Wilson

Chapter Chapter 6 in Private Business … Public Battleground, 2002, pp 171-182 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract So how much has the concept of corporate social responsibility caught on? If you ask the British public they will tell you ‘not much’: when faced by Mori pollsters with the proposition that ‘business and commerce do not pay enough attention to their social responsibilities’, 70 per cent agreed, as did 80 per cent of ‘corporate social responsibility activists’, 79 per cent of MPs of the governing party (Labour), and 41 per cent of business journalists (although only 15 per cent did not agree, the rest were neutral). Of course public perceptions are often out of date, and definitely are in this case, but even so the debate still raging in the business media over the validity of the concept suggests there are still those who have to be persuaded.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility Activist; Corporate Responsibility; Business Case (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230554603_7

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