How corporate social responsibility is defined: an analysis of 37 definitions

By Alexander Dahlsrud. 2008

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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In Information Systems and Management

1. Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
2. Verena Gruber
3. J. Moon
4. Ans Kolk
5. Stephen Brammer
6. Marc Orlitzky
7. Seyyed Alireza Saaeidi
8. Issam Laguir

In Marketing

1. Patrick Velte
2. Stephen Brammer
3. A. Millington
4. M. Hartmann
5. Julian Kirchherr
6. Ans Kolk
7. Brian W. Jacobs
8. Richard Kraude

In Strategy and Management

1. Patrick Velte
2. Stephen Brammer
3. J. Moon
4. M. Hartmann
5. Ans Kolk
6. Julian Kirchherr
7. A. Millington
8. Brian W. Jacobs

Citations in the corpus

• ‘How corporate social responsibility can be integrated into corporate sustainability: a theoretical review of their relationships’ (2018, methodology): “Dahlsrud (2008) also identified and analysed 37 definitions of CSR from 1980 to 2003 and concludes that ‘the definitions are predominantly congruent’ (Dahlsrud 2008).”
• The Impact of Corporate Volunteering on CSR Image: A Consumer Perspective (2015, background): “Consequently, there have been more than forty different definitions of CSR offered in the literature (see Dahlsrud, 2008), which represent several different conceptualisations (Maignan and Ferrell, 2004).”
• Corporate social responsibility in the food sector (2011, background): “2 For a discussion of numerous alternative CSR definitions see e.g. Carroll (1999) and Dahlsrud (2008).”
• The Social Responsibility of International Business: From Ethics and the Environment to CSR and Sustainable Development (2016, positive): “Much of the early literature aimed to specify the concept and the various components of CSR, as it emerged in the second half of the 20th century (see Carroll, 1999; Dahlrsrud, 2008; Kolk, 2010a; Mintzberg, 1983; Whetten, Rands, & Godfrey, 2002; Zenisek, 1979).”
• The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Value: The Role of Customer Awareness (2012, positive): “As such, this definition is consistent with Griffin and Mahon's (1997) multidimensional notion of CSR and with the work of Dahlsrud (2008), who reviewed various definitions of CSR and found that the stakeholder and the social dimensions receive exactly the same attention based on frequency counts…”
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance: Role of Context in International Settings (2013, methodology): “Dahlsrud (2008) conducted a content analysis of 37 definitions authored between 1980 and 2003, and found that the definitions are congruent to a large extent on the scope of CSR—incorporating economic, social, economic, stakeholder and voluntariness dimensions.”
• Public Policies on CSR in Europe: Themes, Instruments, and Regional Differences (2012, neutral): “(Elkington 1994; Dyllick & Hockerts 2002; Dahlsrud 2008).”
• Corporate Social Responsibility as a Vehicle to Reveal the Corporate Identity: A Study Focused on the Websites of Spanish Financial Entities (2011, background): “Therefore, in its initial phases, the concept of CSR was conceptualized as a ‘social obligation’, considering the normative and philosophic issues involving the function of the company as a generator of welfare (Dahlsrud 2008).”