{"id":1063,"date":"2013-01-15T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:31:20","slug":"corporate-social-responsibility-what-is-it-and-on-what-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/2013\/01\/15\/corporate-social-responsibility-what-is-it-and-on-what-basis\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate social responsibility: what is it and on what basis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Social\u00a0Responsibility\u00a0(CSR) is\u00a0a concept widely used,\u00a0but somewhat\u00a0misleading,\u00a0both\u00a0in conception and\u00a0in its contents. Many wonder:<br \/>\n&#8211; Is\u00a0corporate social\u00a0responsibility\u00a0is a mere contribution to society\u00a0from\u00a0the benefits\u00a0obtained or is it something inherent to business activity?<br \/>\n&#8211; Is CSR a\u00a0mere tool\u00a0for\u00a0corporate reputation\u00a0or a moral requirement?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do individuals or corporations bear\u00a0social\u00a0responsibility?<br \/>\n&#8211; Does CSR come\u00a0determined only by\u00a0the demands\u00a0of society\u00a0or by ethics?<br \/>\n&#8211; Is it\u00a0a matter of justice\u00a0that the company contributes\u00a0to the common good\u00a0of society,\u00a0beyond creating\u00a0wealth?<br \/>\n&#8211; What does\u00a0ethics\u00a0in understanding\u00a0corporate social responsibility?<br \/>\nIn the video\u00a0of this post,\u00a0promoted by the Chair\u00a0of Business Ethics\u00a0at IESE\u00a0professors\u00a0of this institution,\u00a0Joan\u00a0Fontrodona,\u00a0Antonio\u00a0Argando\u00f1a and\u00a0Antonino Vaccaro,\u00a0together with Prof.\u00a0Philippe de Woot\u00a0trying to\u00a0clarify\u00a0these and other related questions.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept widely used, but somewhat misleading, both in conception and in its contents &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42502,42503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etica-empresarial-ca","category-etica-social-ca"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/eticaempresarial\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}