“Imagining
Other”
CSR in Context Chapter 9:
Overview
of Viewpoints and Remedies.
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This
chapter simply comprises a table which:
(i)
identifies the five viewpoints on Corporate Social Responsibility as used in
previous chapters.
(ii)
summarises the position taken by each viewpoint on CSR in general, and on each
of the topics we have examined.
If you
refer back to previous chapters you will find more information on each of the
terms used below.
Square
brackets [ ] indicate that the terms used in the brackets
(e.g. consumer rights/protection – also “reduce re-cycle, re-use), and
especially the practices indicated in italics (lifestyle, charity), are
advocated by more than one of the viewpoints – e.g. “lifestyle”: some use this
to mean simply the latest fashion, others to indicate a radical alternative to
the status quo. Likewise charity can be used by business as a way of avoiding
CSR, or it can be used by those outside business to “compensate” for the
negative effects of business. In the case of The Big Issue, Time Banks, and
similar organisations, peoples’ willingness to be charitable has been used as
the basis of a new kind of organisation (it is argued!).
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1.
Rely on Business: 2.
Reform: (*) 3.
Restrain: 4.
Regulate: 5. Replace/Restructure:
(or:
the market) (i.e.
from inside) (i.e. from
outside) (by
government etc) (the system)
CSR: CSR
not exist codes,
internal external social
audit, laws socialism etc: “soft”
social audit shareholder
activism pressure groups to “hard”
WORKER
(CHAPTER 4):
Enough to employ. Managers need to (Trade unions if Laws: HASAWA, Marxism.
If dissatisfied, not care for workers: national backing) Employment Workers’
co-operatives.
managers’ problem. TQM, etc. protection,
unfair Alternative technology,
“Worker a “Workers have dismissal
etc.
commodity.” rights”
CONSUMER
(CHAPTER 5):
“Caveat emptor” Self-regulation: Consumer Assoc. Laws: Trades No shopping!
Codes,
ASA etc. Countervailing power. Description etc Adbusters.
Body
Shop. Consumer boycotts. Oppose market values.
Consumer adaption [Rights………………lifestyle……………Protection………………….. Rejection]
1st
wave 2nd
wave 3rd
wave
Market will protect. Green business. Greenpeace,
(Kyoto) Sustainable Kyoto? Protection Laws. Sustainability.
Capitalism. Carbon footprint Govt. incentives. Zero growth.
[Three
Rs: reduce, recycle, re-use…..lifestyle…………………………………]
Free trade. Reduce tariff NGOs, (Oxfam, (Not
applicable?) Fairtrade, ITDG
Neo-liberalism barriers, fairer ActionAid,ATD 4th
World) Overseas aid. Anti-globalists.
trade. UN (Note
WTO, IMF Anti-capitalists,
[charity……………………………………] World
Bank) Zapatistas
etc.
Market is fair. Corporate giving. Charities (support Government’s role. Social Enterprise
“Trickle down” Bus. in Community. from business) Partnerships, D.A.s. Co-operatives
[charity……………………………………] LETS, Time Banks, etc
(*) Update:
the book ‘Rethinking Capitalism’ by Mariana Mazzucato and Michael Jacobs (with
contributions from Joseph Stiglitz and others) is a recent contribution to this
viewpoint. (July 2016)
See also
the authors’ comments on Theresa May’s campaign speech before she became Prime
Minister, Guardian 20th July 2016.
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