Recovering the past: reviving the legacy of the early scholars of corporate social responsibility
Recovering the past: reviving the legacy of the early scholars of corporate social responsibility
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恢复过去:复兴早期企业社会责任学者的遗产
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2008
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Richard Marens
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Richard Marens
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to elucidate and explain the origins and transformation of the study of corporate social responsibility (CSR) over its half‐century history.Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a historical study in two parts. The first and larger part examines the CSR literature of the 1950s from both an intellectual and social perspective. It not only analyzes the content of these writings, but it also places them and their authors in a political and economic context. The second part explains why so many of the themes and approaches of this first generation have been abandoned by more recent CSR scholars by pointing to decisive changes in the American social and political environment.Findings – Early CSR research was a product of the cataclysmic events that the scholars in this field experienced personally and professionally, most importantly the labor conflicts of the 1930s and the uneasy labor peace that subsequently followed. By contrast, the more modern approach that emp...