A different look at corporate social responsibility

Abstract

Social Corporate Responsibility is a concept currently in vogue. Misidentified with philanthropy, Social Corporate Responsibility establishes that corporations have social and labour duties to accomplish. The author reviews the importance of Social Corporate Responsibility inside the corporate world and in the struggle for human rights. A key question posed in this essay is until which extent Social Corporate Responsibility can help to improve labour conditions.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 113, 2007: 337-361