Corporate Responsibility, Strategic Management and the Stakeholder View of the Firm - Introduction and Editorial.

Author
Gilbert Lenssen, President, EABIS and Professor, University of Leiden (Netherlands); Francesco Perrini, Professor and Chair of Social Entrepreneurship, Bocconi University (Italy); Antonio Tencati, Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher, Bocconi University (Italy); and Peter Lacy, Executive Director, EABIS
Category
Managing Corporate Responsibility
Language
English
Link
Corporate Responsibility, Strategic Management and the Stakeholder View of the Firm - Introduction and Editorial.
 
The debate on corporate responsibility is ongoing and refuses to fade away as a short-lived
fashion. Although the term ‘‘CSR’’ has gained currency with some academics, managers,
civil society actors and policy-makers, it remains a largely contested term. The Economist
(Crook, 2005), for example, has regularly voiced its skepticism and opposition to CSR,
perhaps most notably in a 2005 special report on the ‘‘Good corporation’’, which provided a
strong critique of the theory and practice of CSR.
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