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the growth in the number and quality of businesses caused many positive results for societies. but it can potentially bring some unfavorable effects to their environment. although there issued many different definitions of social responsibility, there is lack of consensus among scholars about its definition. aside from its different and sometimes paradoxical definitions, corporate social capital at least, can be defined as the productive interaction between businesses and their environments. despite the robust body of knowledge in international literature of corporate social responsibility, this issue has not drawn enough attention in iranian studies. using meta-synthesis approach of 8 the most relevant iranian studies about corporate social responsibility, corporate social responsibility is defined as an organization’s voluntary and strategy-based sensitivity to its environment, which has formed in transaction with its managerial, economic and social environment, which is to set balance between interests of organization, society, human and government, by reliance on meritocracy, democracy, change and humanistic values.