New Aspects of European Integration:

Corporate Social Responsibility, Social

Dialogue and the Working Environment in
the Baltic States – An Interdisciplinary
Approach

Seminar 4 Corporate Social Responsibility

 Why a movement to
Corporate Social Responsibility?

• Globalisation

• Greater transparency of corporate

(mis)conduct

• Wider notion of accountability

 Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR)
• “CSR promotes the idea that companies besides
their economic concerns decide to take on board
environmental and social ones.”

• “The occupational safety and health concerns for

the workforce often play an important role
amongst these.”