分裂世界中的商业责任:企业社会责任运动的冷战根源

“Business Responsibilities in a Divided World”: The Cold War Roots of the Corporate Social Responsibility Movement

Enterprise and Society · 2008
被引 53 · 同刊同年前 1%
ABS 3

中文导读

本文追溯企业社会责任(CSR)运动的思想根源,指出其源于冷战初期,哈佛商学院院长等人倡导CSR作为捍卫自由市场资本主义、对抗苏联共产主义的手段,并呼吁对CSR的意识形态假设进行批判性分析。

Abstract

Both business executives and management scholars have, in recent years, focused a great deal of attention on the theme of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Calls for business leaders to expend resources on behalf of “social good” tend to downplay, if not ignore, what is fundamentally an ideological question: just what is a “good” society and who defines “goodness”? The ideological underpinnings of social responsibility and its relationship to the “good” society can be explored through an historical perspective. The roots of the CSR movement trace back to the early years of the Cold War. Led by Donald K David, Dean of the Harvard Business School and supported by other academics and executives given voice on the pages of the Harvard Business Review, advocates urged expanded business social responsibility as a means of aligning business interests with the defense of free-market capitalism against what was depicted as the clear-and-present danger of Soviet Communism. Today's enthusiastic calls for business to “do well by doing good” could benefit from a similar critical analysis not just of the goals of CSR but also the ideological assumptions, often unacknowledged, that underlie those goals.

企业社会责任商业史意识形态冷战资本主义