RT Article
T1 Pluralism in Political Corporate Social Responsibility
JF Business ethics quarterly
VO 22
IS 4
SP 649
OP 678
A1 Mäkinen, Jukka
A1 Kourula, Arno
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1824197160
AB Within corporate social responsibility (CSR), the exploration of the political role of firms (political CSR) has recently experienced a revival. We review three key periods of political CSR literature—classic, instrumental, and new political CSR—and use the Rawlsian conceptualization of division of moral labor within political systems to describe each period’s background political theories. The three main arguments of the paper are as follows. First, classic CSR literature was more pluralistic in terms of background political theories than many later texts. Second, instrumental CSR adopted classical liberalism and libertarian laissez-faire as its structural logic. Third, new political CSR, based on a strong globalist transition of responsibilities and tasks from governments to companies, lacks a conceptualization of division of moral labor that is needed to fully depart from a classical liberalist position. We end by providing a set of recommendations to develop pluralism in political CSR.
K1 Pluralism
K1 division of moral labor
K1 Rawls
K1 Political Theory
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
DO 10.5840/beq201222443