Journal
BUSINESS ETHICS QUARTERLY
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 709-737Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.5840/beq201222445
Keywords
corporate governance; globalization; Habermas; multinational corporations; Rawls; political corporate social responsibility
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I here advance a critical research agenda for the political perspective of corporate social responsibility (Political CSR). I argue that whilst the 'Political' CSR literature is notable for both its conceptual novelty and practical importance, its development has been hamstrung by four ambiguities, conflations and/or oversights. More positively, I argue that 'Political' CSR should be conceived as one potential form of globalization, and not as a consequence of 'globalization'; that contemporary Western MNCs should be presumed to engage in CSR for instrumental reasons; that 'Political' CSR should be associated with a corresponding 'political' model of corporate governance; and that both a 'Rawlsian' and 'Habermasian' perspective of Political CSR are different from 'Political' CSR. In concluding, I use these four critiques to identify a number of areas within which increasingly robust and sophisticated positive and normative theories of Political CSR are required.
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