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Two Models Of Corporate Social Responsibility To Communities, Alan Wallace

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

Corporations from the most economically developed countries have been joining together over the past 15 years to form organizations such as Caux Round Table, Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, and Canadian Business for Social Responsibility to widely promote corporate social responsibility and either to craft standards of social responsibility or to provide examples from members about how they enact corporate social responsibility. Although their views overlap, there are some inconsistencies in content, emphasis, rationales for corporate social responsibility, and audit recommendations. Examination of these four organizations reveals two quite different rationales for corporate social performance, one involving sharing …