Does CSR Contribute to Sustainable Development? What a Régulation Approach Can Tell Us

Thomas Lamarche () and Catherine Bodet
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Thomas Lamarche: LADYSS - Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: We argue that corporate social responsibility depends on two distinct stylized facts concerning régulation and power. The first\textemdashinstitutional CSR\textemdashis institutional in nature, the other\textemdashstrategic CSR\textemdashis economic and productive. The former permits and stabilizes the latter, which in turn gives rise to political compromises structuring institutional mechanisms. CSR strategies and institutions correspond to a private, oligopolistic régulation which shows no signs of being able to pursue a sustainable development regime.

Keywords: Sustainable development; Radical political economics; Regulation; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Institution; global value chains; quality convention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018, 50 (1), pp.154-172. ⟨10.1177/0486613416635038⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/0486613416635038

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