Volume 22, 2011
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting
Duane Windsor
Pages 151-162
An Organizing Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility Theories
This paper proposes an organizing framework that shows likely relationships among five identifiable approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR is an umbrella term embracing mandatory, expected, and voluntary activities. CSR is a contested concept, along a continuum from strong CSR through strategic CSR to zero CSR positions. The intention for the framework is to help scholars with understanding how various CSR approaches relate to one another. The organizing framework is explicated in Figure 2.