The ethicality of altruistic corporate social responsibility

By G. Lantos. 2002

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Consumers and Corporate Social Responsibility: Matching the Unmatchable? (2007, background): “…upon, stretching from Carroll’s (2000) “four faces of corporate citizenship,” embracing economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic components, to Lantos (2001, 2002), who argues for rejecting altruistic (philanthropic) CSR, but including ethical and strategic objectives of CSR. Mapping the…”
• Building corporate social responsibility into strategy (2009, background): “profit spending) to societal and community needs that are tied to organizational objectives and strategy, such as philanthropy, sponsorships and cause-related marketing (Mullen, 1997; Lantos, 2002; Porter and Kramer, 2002).”
• Impacts of Corporate Code of Conduct on Labor Standards: A Case Study of Reebok’s Athletic Footwear Supplier Factory in China (2008, background): “As claimed by many CSR theorists, a positive effect of strategic CSR activities on profitability could be realized through various competitive advantages: enhanced brand value and reputation; closer links with customers and greater awareness of their needs; higher employee morale, and hence higher p”
• From philanthropy to a different way of doing business: strategies and challenges in integrating pro-poor approaches into tourism business (2006, background): “5 The key difference is not in the degree of benefit to the company: there are plenty of arguments in CSR debates that philanthropy is often strategic, and the core commercial benefits are clear if indirect (Lantos, 2001; Lantos, 2002).”
• Does primary stakeholder management positively affect the bottom line? Some evidence from Australia (2006, background): “That we found a negative association between social impact and firm performance lends some evidence to those who question the use of shareholder funds beyond any activity that does not strictly relate to making money (e.g., Levitt, 1958; Friedman, 1970; Lantos, 2002; Lantos and Cooke, 2003).”
• Communicating sustainability: A web content analysis of North American, Asian and European firms (2008, background): “Regardless of a firm's geographic location, traditionally it is largely positive information that companies communicate to their stakeholders, while negative facts are often ignored ( Lantos, 2002”