6/3/2023 0 Comments CSR drivers pptThis article seeks to add clarity to CSR theory and research by focusing on the core responsibilities that form the trunk of the branching CSR tree. The old claim that CSR “means something, but not always the same thing to everybody” 3 is no less true today. Fruitful as the development of a comprehensive organizing framework for the field has been, we are still left with the same quagmire of definitional problems that beclouded the old debate about the exact nature of CSR. ![]() 1 Waddock 2 used the metaphor of a branching tree to describe how the field has evolved into its current understanding of CSR, an understanding that attempts to link the relatively parallel universes of theory and practice, and to illustrate how various conceptual branches are related to each other. All accounts of CSR recognize that business firms have many different kinds of responsibility, and seek to define both the scope of corporate responsibility in society and the criteria for measuring business performance in the social arena. ![]() Decades of debate on corporate social responsibility (CSR) have resulted in a substantial body of literature offering a number of philosophies that despite real and relevant differences among their theoretical assumptions express consensus about the fundamental idea that business corporations have an obligation to work for social betterment.
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