Does CSR Limit Our Understanding of Business Ethics?

Michael S. Aßländer () and Stefanie Kast ()
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Michael S. Aßländer: Technische Universität Dresden
Stefanie Kast: Technische Universität Dresden

Chapter Chapter 3 in Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses, 2021, pp 45-64 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Over the last three decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a key topic both in scholarly research and in business practice. However, the way how such kind of social responsibility is ‘conducted’ in the business world is based on a wrong understanding of ethics and has distracted from the original intention of the CSR debate. CSR has become a managerial discipline based on an instrumental logic. As we will outline in our contribution, at least three developments deserve critical attention in this context: (1) A strict orientation towards predefined standards, (2) following a pure governance logic when implementing CSR and (3) using CSR as a means for the symbolic adoption of responsibility.

Keywords: Business ethics; Codes of conduct; Corporate social responsibility (CSR); Global Reporting Initiative (GRI); Governance; International standards; ISO 26000; Stewardship; Symbolic adoption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60727-2_3

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