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Outsource to Asia: How Multinational Corporations Legitimately Forget Corporate Social Responsibility

In: Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia

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  • Yue S. Ang

    (Oxford Brookes University)

Abstract

This article aims to show the inefficacy of implementing the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a globalised world. It advances a criticism of the voluntary adoption of CSR by businesses. The incorporation of CSR preserves the image of businesses because consumers perceived them as ‘ethical traders’. However, the proliferation of outsourcing has facilitated the disregard of CSR whereby businesses are externalising their manufacturing tasks to Asia. This article explores the case of Doe v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (U.S. Dist LEXIS 98102, 2007) in the attempt to highlight the process of externalisation by which through outsourcing multinational corporations legitimately forget CSR principles.

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  • Yue S. Ang, 2014. "Outsource to Asia: How Multinational Corporations Legitimately Forget Corporate Social Responsibility," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Kim Cheng Patrick Low & Samuel O. Idowu & Sik Liong Ang (ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 165-172, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-01532-3_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01532-3_9
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