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Current Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility: An Introduction

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  • Samuel O. Idowu

    (London Metropolitan University)

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We are in an era of positive change in all areas of human existence—business, education, government and politics, charities, religion, society and many more. It has become necessary for a number of instruments we use in business and the general societal environment to be remodelled to meet the needs of modern global citizens. The sudden realisation that many of the resources we are accustomed to are exhaustible and could easily become depleted quickly has downed on us alarmingly and been responsible for why things must compellingly change from many dimensions. The Brundtland Report on Our Common Future which came into prominence some three decades ago—in 1987 to be precise introduced sustainability perhaps into our vocabulary but certainly into our consciousness. The Report reminds us all that we should not only live for today but think about future generations of everything around us that must continue to exist on this planet. Our failure to understand the implications of what the report requires of us all to live sustainably has serious consequences for everything existing on this planet—the name of the game and what is expected of us is embedded in corporate social responsibility as propagated by many CSR scholars such as Bowen (1953), Carroll (1991, 1999, 2016), Capaldi (2004, 2016), Vertigan (2015) just to mention a few.

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  • Samuel O. Idowu, 2018. "Current Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility: An Introduction," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Samuel O. Idowu & Catalina Sitnikov & Dalia Simion & Claudiu George Bocean (ed.), Current Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility, pages 1-7, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-70449-4_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70449-4_1
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