The Social Vocation of the Firm

Giuseppe Argiolas ()
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Giuseppe Argiolas: University of Cagliari

Chapter Chapter 3 in Christian Ethics and Corporate Culture, 2014, pp 23-44 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Strong elements of transformation that characterize our contemporary society affected and nowadays affect, in a considerable way, all aspects of real daily life, not least how human beings express their capability to face, and then try to govern, the environmental complexity. This circumstance influences human beings’ relationships, in the form of the entities they choose to organize their relations, and especially on modus operandi of these entities. Literature has already underlined the inevitable need for modern enterprises to be socially responsible and to adopt an authentic social orientation to properly answer the issues of society and the unavoidable social vocation of the firm. Despite the importance of the corporate social orientation, this issue is still not really well developed. This chapter covers this gap focusing on the internal relation of the firm. The chapter delineates the key drivers of corporate social orientation that in some way takes in, includes, and transcends the previous, implying the adoption of social dimension as background reference in defining its way of being and operating.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Business Ethic; Social Responsibility; United Nations; Social Orientation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00939-1_3

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