Corporate Social Responsibility; Mutual Expediency of Transnational Companies and Developing Countries

The Case for Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries

© 2007 Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA, and 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK. Blackwell Publishing Inc M lden, USA ASR usiness and Society Review 0045-3609 © 2007 Ce ter f r Busin ss Ethics at Bentley College 11 Origi al Article U INES and SOCIETY REVIEW DIMA JAM LI The Case for Strategic Corporate ...

Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe: Analyzing Business in Transnational Contexts

Ever since the European Commission (EC) defined what “corporate social responsibility” is, European debate has taken up the definition as given. However a brief review of literature soon highlights that the adopted definition has given rise to some relevant concerns and is not without its critics. These criticisms might relate to the fact that literature on the issue is mainly produced by Ameri...

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Contribute to Human Development in Developing Countries? Evidence from Nigeria

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the “psychology and economics” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, soc...

Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

The ethics we find in companies contains the same elements as the ethics in the socio-economic context in which they operate. The aspirations and ethical levels of companies operating in certain countries differ substantially from those of companies operating in other areas, where the defence of the environment, social welfare, human rights, cooperation, assistance are expected and offered to a...