2381/41570
Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto
Sigmund
Wagner-Tsukamoto
In Search of Ethics: From Carroll to Integrative CSR Economics
University of Leicester
2018
Responsible management
corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Carroll’s framework
CSR economics
instrumental stakeholder management (‘business case’ argument)
corporate financial performance (CFP)
2018-04-16 15:18:41
Journal contribution
https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/In_Search_of_Ethics_From_Carroll_to_Integrative_CSR_Economics/10233701
Archie Carroll’s ground-breaking research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is widely acknowledged. Revisiting his classic CSR pyramid framework, the paper evolved a novel synthesis of ethics and economics, yielding an ‘integrative CSR economics’. This approach to CSR is conceptually coherent since it is grounded in one ‘discipline’ or research program only; i.e. economics. This reduces conceptual confusion which today is still attributed to many CSR approaches, especially ones that tried to synthesize CSR concept in a grand interdisciplinary manner. On this basis, the paper argued for integrative CSR economics on ethical, theoretical, empirical and practical grounds.