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• In Defence of Corporate Responsibility

Two serious criticisms of CSR have emerged from separate ends of the political spectrum. They are levelled at the heart of the purpose of business and what companies, particularly large companies are responsible for. From the Left, Joel Bakan, in his book and subsequent film, The Corporation, alleges that CSR is a smokescreen, enabling companies to hide their bad practices and strengthen their ability to resist regulation by government, from the Right, The Economist, building on arguments that hark back to Milton Friedman and even Adam Smith, has argued that CSR is a waste of resources, distracting companies from their core roles of producing goods and services, and making profits. These criticisms are misguided but they have intellectual foundations; as such they risk undermining much ...

...The crucial roles of civil society groups and responsible governments are to ... very different problems, like Colombia, Angola and Papua, Indonesia. At first, BP relied on staff...

• Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
• Band 6 Nr. 3, September 2005