Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy

Read this article about Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR. It offers multiple arguments around the topic. Does the format help you see the issues of CSR from a broader perspective?

Endnotes

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6. US Senator Patrick Leahy, "The Greenwashing of the Bush Anti-Environmental Record on the President's Earth Day Visits to Maine and Florida," (statement on the Senate floor, Washington, DC, April 26, 2004).

7. See Sebastian Bailey, "Business Leaders Beware: Ethical Drift Makes Standards Slip," Forbes, May 15, 2013, accessed December 6, 2014, http://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianbailey/2013/05/15/business-leaders-beware-ethical-drift-makes-standards-slip/.