CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Corporate Social Responsibility is the company’s self-regulation to help them be socially
accountable not only for their company but also for the stakeholders and the community. These
self-regulating business standards were developed by corporations to create a positive impact on
society. There are three reasons why corporations care about social responsibility; a pragmatic
reason, which is based on business using its power responsibly, ethical reason, that is based on
business having the responsibility to behave ethically, and a strategic reason, which is the
corporations deciding on which social responsibility or stakeholders they need to focus and use
their resources (Managing Business Ethics by Trevino, L.K, & Nelson, K.A. (2017) pages 326 to
330).
There are four types of Corporate Social Responsibilities. The Economic
Responsibilities, Legal Responsibilities, Ethical Responsibilities, and Philanthropic
Responsibilities. Economic Responsibilities are the business's ability to produce goods and
services that consumers need to be able to make a profit. While company aims to maximize
their profit, they also need to be legally and ethically responsible in running their company.
This means that business needs to conform with society and should be legal and not harmful no
matter what the potential profit it can bring to the company. Philanthropic responsibility focusses
on business participation in activities that support and promotes human welfare through
donations of either time, services, products, or money. (Managing for Ethical Conduct Pages
34,35,36, 37)
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