Outsource to Asia: How Multinational Corporations Legitimately Forget Corporate Social Responsibility

Yue S. Ang ()
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Yue S. Ang: Oxford Brookes University

Chapter Chapter 9 in Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia, 2014, pp 165-172 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This article aims to show the inefficacy of implementing the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a globalised world. It advances a criticism of the voluntary adoption of CSR by businesses. The incorporation of CSR preserves the image of businesses because consumers perceived them as ‘ethical traders’. However, the proliferation of outsourcing has facilitated the disregard of CSR whereby businesses are externalising their manufacturing tasks to Asia. This article explores the case of Doe v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (U.S. Dist LEXIS 98102, 2007) in the attempt to highlight the process of externalisation by which through outsourcing multinational corporations legitimately forget CSR principles.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Foreign Direct Investment; Fair Trade; Multinational Corporation; Corporate Social Responsibility Report (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01532-3_9

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