Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Jones, Geoffrey

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2291145

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“…Stewardship, philanthropy and charitable contributions of businessmen, quite prevalent in the nineteenth century, were motivated by religious predisposition of businessmen (Husted, 2015). Christian values of founders influenced the societal role of firms for a long time, be it industrial paternalism or welfare capitalism (Jones, 2013). Mass production system, championed by Henry Ford in the early twentieth century and followed by many businessmen, which provided goods at lower costs along with adequate returns for investors and creation of employment opportunities, was also perceived to display societal concern of businessmen (Hoffman, 2007).…”

Section: Evolution Of Csr In the Usamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Historic corporate social responsibility (CSR) recognizes history as an important yet less researched field (Schremph-Stirling et al, 2016). Particularly, research on tracing the country of origin of CSR is an interesting yet less researched field (Husted, 2015;Jones, 2013). Comparative studies between developed and developing countries with respect to the historical evolution of CSR are also not much researched.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…It is believed to have occurred around 1750 during the industrial revolution in Britain, spreading to US and Japan subsequently. However, growth of CSR in the USA was more than that in Europe those days because of the rapid expansion of American business, and presence of philanthropist businessmen such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller in the USA (Jones, 2013). Moreover, writings on CSR practices are mostly traced to the USA in the twentieth century (Aaronson, 2002;Husted, 2015;Sood and Arora, 2006), thus putting it in the lead among developed countries with respect to overall growth in CSR.…”

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Evolution of corporate social responsibility: two sets of explanation

Mishra

2019

SRJ

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Purpose This study aims to advance two sets of explanation on the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) – one set of explanation in the context of a developed country, USA, and another in the context of a developing country, India. The discussion includes the period after mandatory CSR rules were implemented in India. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper on the historical evolution of CSR in the USA and India. It reviews the chronological evolution of CSR. It compares the phases of CSR evolution between the two countries by tracking their CSR growth curves. Findings This study divides the evolution of CSR in the USA into four phases – conceptualization, introduction, growth and consolidation. In the first two phases, the rate of growth in CSR increases at a decreasing rate; in the growth phase, it increases at an increasing rate which stabilizes in the consolidation phase. In the Indian context, the study considers a three phase growth – conceptualization, introduction and growth. In the first two phases, the growth in CSR curve is inelastic. In the third phase, the growth rate increases but at a rate less than that in the USA. Originality/value Though past research has examined historical evolution of CSR in the US context, scant research has tracked CSR evolution in India. Not many studies have compared the growth of CSR between developed and developing countries. This study also contributes the concept of CSR growth curves to the extant literature on CSR.

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Section: Evolution Of Csr In the Usamentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Evolution of corporate social responsibility: two sets of explanation

Mishra

2019

SRJ

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“…Antal and colleagues (2009) find that implicit forms of CSR have remained stable in Germany for many years, encapsulated in laws, societal norms and industrial relations agreements, but that these structures were challenged in past decades (see also Hiss, 2009;Lohmeyer, 2017). Similar trajectories of how institutional frameworks eroded and gave way to more explicit CSR forms-as an "imperfect substitute" (Brammer et al, 2012) for institutionalised social solidarity-were studied in different European (Antal & Sobczak, 2007;Argandona & von Weltzien Hoivik, 2009;Ihlen & von Weltzien Hoivik, 2013;Kang & Moon, 2012), non-European (Jammulamadaka, 2016), comparative (Gond, Kang, & Moon, 2011) and global contexts (Jones, 2013(Jones, , 2017.…”

Section: The Diffusion and Globalisation Of Csrmentioning

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History in corporate social responsibility: Reviewing and setting an agenda

Stutz

2018

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“…This issue was a long-standing one in the history of capitalism, recently revisited by Porter and Kramer in the concept of "shared value." 3 Could private-sector firms improve sanitation and environmental sustainability while turning a profit? Which firms and entrepreneurs consciously attempted to combine these two goals, and when?…”

Section: Waste Recycling and Entrepreneurship In Central And Northern Europe 1870-1940mentioning

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