The social responsibility of corporations

Jens Hillebrand

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Grin Publishing
Country
Germany
Published
15 April 2008
Pages
36
ISBN
9783638931236

The social responsibility of corporations

Jens Hillebrand

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 1,3, University of Glamorgan, course: Business Ethics and Sustainable Development, 43 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay builds upon Milton Friedman’s (1970) famous statement that the social responsibility is to make a profit . It analyses four dimensions of corporate social responsibility - economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic - and discusses arguments for and against each of them. The study concludes that there is need as well as justification for CSR, not only in a strategic manner, but also in an altruistic/philanthropic way.

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