Corporate Governance

The State, Business and Corporate Social Responsibility in India

“…The findings of such search are likely to be rich, provided one keeps an open mind, in view of the inherently holistic nature of CSR itself, ‘a concept which suggests that commercial corporations must fulfill their duty of providing care to the society’ (Agarwal, 2008: 12). It is hard work, but rewarding, to make the necessary connections, engaged in parallel reading of specialist Indian studies, for example, on corporate governance (Joshi, 2004; Sampath, 2006), consumer protection (Saraf, 1993; Singh, 1996), public interest litigation (Jain, 2002) and the future of human rights (Baxi, 2002).…”