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History Of €Œcorporate Social Responsibility†Concept

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  • Nicoleta Farcane
  • Eusebiu Bureana

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With long-lasting debates, corporate social responsibility concept was from the beginning a high-interest subject to all of the stakeholders of the companies: shareholders, public opinion, employees and governments. Based on studies which demonstrates the socially responsible companies have major financial and image-related benefits, we started researching the roots of the concept “corporate social responsibility†. By using qualitative method, hermeneutic perspective, we chose the comprehensive approach of CSR developed by Goodpaster et al. (2005). We analyzed four sides out of five of the concept (economics contributions of companies to society, contextual changing of companies' development and existence environment, Conceptual evolution and dimentions of CSR, perspective of theories in close connection with CSR) and we proposed a definition of what we belive is CSR. Analyzing the pros and cons of accepting the CSR model as stated nowadays, we concluded as follows: Without neglecting the implicit social responsibility of companies towards others (like human beings) - by means of taxes and social charges imposed by law, and without fully accepting the extreme opinion that presents corporations as entities that indirectly hold all the communities' political, social and economic power, companies should strictly follow their economic goal, which implicitly fulfils all the additional requirements imposed to companies by some stakeholders.

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  • Nicoleta Farcane & Eusebiu Bureana, 2015. "History Of €Œcorporate Social Responsibility†Concept," Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica, Faculty of Sciences, "1 Decembrie 1918" University, Alba Iulia, vol. 2(17), pages 1-3.
  • Handle: RePEc:alu:journl:v:2:y:2015:i:17:p:3
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    1. Sara Mehrab Daniali & Sergey Evgenievich Barykin & Mostafa Ghanbari Ghalerodkhani & Andrey Viktorovich Kharlamov & Tatiana Lvovna Kharlamova & Oksana Vladimirovna Savvina & Diana Igorevna Stepanova, 2021. "Evaluation of Strategies to Improve the Corporate Social Responsibility Performance in Food and Pharmaceutical Industries: Empirical Evidence from Iran," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(22), pages 1-15, November.
    2. Ioannis Koukoumpliakos, 2021. "How Corporate Social Responsibility Affects the Aspects of Human Resources Management," Economics Working Papers 2021-01, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Faculty of Economics.

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    Keywords

    CSR; corporate social performance; corporate social sensitivity; CSR models;
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    JEL classification:

    • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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