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This 12 page paper considers is there is such as thing as corporate social responsibility and then looks at the ways in which the results of this approach can be measured. The paper focuses on environmental measurements. The bibliography cites 14 sources.
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the bottom-line benefits are hard to measure precisely." The statement that corporate social responsibility is the result of market forces indicates that in most cases companies would not pursue
this attitude to business unless it were profitable. CSR may be claimed as idealistic approach and true care for a range of issues not only profit, or as the quote
above that indicates it is profit driven. The results may be the same, but the motivation is very different and without being able to see the motivation it is also
difficult to measure its real presence and the value of that ethic. In this paper we will first look at whether there is such a thing as true CSR and
then, if there is, how it may be measures. If we are going to examine this we first need to consider what is meant by corporate social responsibility. There
is not single definition that is widely accepted. One good definition is that of Holme and Watts (2000); "Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically
and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large". Within
this there may be the extension of the concept to the approaches such as environmentalism to the way in which corporate governance may be taking place, There are two main
ways in which corporate government is seen, nether deny the need for corporate social responsibility, but it may be argued that in one model it is not CSR but only
market forces as such it adheres to the above quote. The school of shareholder wealth maximisation states that it is the shareholder who
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