新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Welfare State: The Historical and Contemporary Role of CSR in the Mixed Economy of Welfare

摘要：

There is a large and growing literature on Corporate Social Responsibility, companies’ voluntary engagement for social and environmental ends. Most of these writings have focused on the so-called “business case”—CSR’s impact on business profitability—rather than on the “social case,” CSR’s impact on the rest of us. Jeanette Brejning’s book Corporate Social Responsibility and the Welfare State addresses this important and understudied topic. Brejning’s questions are twofold: first, how do welfare states impact CSR? Second, has CSR been used to rollback the welfare state or to improve the latter’s effectiveness in tackling social exclusion?