Multinational corporate social responsibility, ethics, interactions and Third World governments: An agenda for the 1990s

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 553-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sita C. Amba-Rao
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Third World ◽  
Responsibility Ethics ◽  
Corporate Social

‘I feel like a foreign agent’: NGOs and corporate social responsibility interventions into Third World child labor

2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 1417-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzad Rafi Khan ◽  
Robert Westwood ◽  
David M Boje
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Third World ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Foreign Agent ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Corporate Social

A field study focused on a Western-led Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) intervention into Pakistan’s soccer ball industry is used to explore the dynamics surrounding local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) staff charged with implementation. Those dynamics include the post-colonial conditions pervasive in Third World contexts that frame the perception, interpretation, and reaction to Western interventions. NGO staff must navigate these conditions, which impel them into multiple subject positions and contradictory rationalities resulting in unsatisfactory experiences. Like many Western-led interventions resting on universalistic, paternalistic, de-contextualizing, and atomistic assumptions, this one brought negative unintended consequences. This leads to a suggested reconfiguration of CSR from a post-colonial perspective insistent on an inclusive ‘bottom-up’, ‘reversed engineered’ approach, wherein CSR problems are traced back to Western multinational corporations’ policies and practices.

scholarly journals Responsabilidad social empresarial una visión integral

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Abreu Quintero ◽  
Jesús Gerardo Cruz Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
International Level ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Concept Evolution ◽  
Historical Origin ◽  
Responsibility Ethics ◽  
Corporate Social

Abstract. The historical origin of the corporate social responsibility concept is established in the ancient Persian civilization and an analysis of the concept evolution is carried out, bringing out a debate on the diverse actual definitions, from a perspective of recognized researchers including the approach of an extensive diversity of institutions at the international level, making emphasis in the latinamerican approximation. An own concept is concluded founded in the existence of an universal consciousness that should contemplate the balanceamong society, nature and corporate profitability.Key words: corporate social responsibility, ethics, consciousness, ethical values, vohû khshathra vairyaResumen. Se establece el origen histórico del concepto de responsabilidad socialempresarial en la antigua civilización persa y se realiza un análisis de la evolución del concepto, presentándose un debate de las diversas definiciones que existen en la actualidad, desde la perspectiva de reconocidos investigadores incluyendo el enfoque de una extensa diversidad de instituciones a nivel internacional, haciéndose énfasis en la aproximación latinoamericana. Se concluye con un concepto propio fundamentado en la existencia de unaconciencia universal que debe contemplar el equilibro entre la sociedad, la naturaleza y la rentabilidad empresarial.Palabras Clave: responsabilidad social empresarial, ética, conciencia, valores éticos, vohû khshathra vairya.

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