Responsabilité sociale des entreprises. Enjeux globaux et technologiques

This article analyses corporate social responsibility as a normative system with binding effects at a global level. It argues that the voluntary and self-regulatory nature of CSR is altered when multilateral instruments of standardisation such as codes of conducts or multilateral guidelines are connected to new mechanisms of implementation such as auditing, compliance and new technologies (blockchain, Big Data and algorithmic execution). The article concludes that these transformations give in-house counsels a central role in the design and implementation of CSR policies.