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Does CSR Limit Our Understanding of Business Ethics?

In: Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses

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  • Michael S. Aßländer

    (Technische Universität Dresden)

  • Stefanie Kast

    (Technische Universität Dresden)

Abstract

Over the last three decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a key topic both in scholarly research and in business practice. However, the way how such kind of social responsibility is ‘conducted’ in the business world is based on a wrong understanding of ethics and has distracted from the original intention of the CSR debate. CSR has become a managerial discipline based on an instrumental logic. As we will outline in our contribution, at least three developments deserve critical attention in this context: (1) A strict orientation towards predefined standards, (2) following a pure governance logic when implementing CSR and (3) using CSR as a means for the symbolic adoption of responsibility.

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  • Michael S. Aßländer & Stefanie Kast, 2021. "Does CSR Limit Our Understanding of Business Ethics?," Springer Books, in: Marta Peris-Ortiz & Patricia Márquez & Jaime Alonso Gomez & Mónica López-Sieben (ed.), Progress in Ethical Practices of Businesses, chapter 0, pages 45-64, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-60727-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60727-2_3
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