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Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Handmaid of Ethics:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility
• Accountability to Society
The classical economic model: Adam Smith believed that public interest
was served best by individuals pursuing their own self-interests.
The socio-economic model: Business is seen as one subsystem among
many in a highly interdependent society.
• It recognizes that companies have stakeholders other than their
stockholders.
• Business has an obligation to respond to the needs of all stakeholders
while pursuing its profit.
Today’s Corporate Social Responsibility
•Trusteeship Model
•The Pluralistic
Models for Implementation of CSR