Sacco, Pier Luigi ;
Viviani, Michele
(2006)
La Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa prospettive teoriche nel dibattito italiano.
Bologna:
Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE,
p. 42.
DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4707.
In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE
(578).
ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract
This paper is meant as a discussion of different methodological
approaches to the analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR), sorted out
through a scrutiny of the literature that has emerged from the recent Italian
debate.
The first stream of literature is embedded in the neo-classical approach
that adapts – to the contemporary economic environment - the famous Milton
Friedman’s statement that the social responsibility of the firm is to make profits
(Friedman, 1970).
The second stream refers to a neo-contractualist approach, mainly
developed by Lorenzo Sacconi (2004, 2005), that can be considered as an
insightful application of incomplete contracts theory, strongly characterized by
a contractualist-oriented ethical perspective.
The third stream is the relational approach developed by Bruni and
Zamagni (2004), which takes the issue of social reproduction into account in the
description of the economic system, thereby looking at firms as producers of
socially provided goods.
Finally, we propose an integration between these different perspectives
through the adoption of a conventionalist definition of CSR.
Abstract
This paper is meant as a discussion of different methodological
approaches to the analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR), sorted out
through a scrutiny of the literature that has emerged from the recent Italian
debate.
The first stream of literature is embedded in the neo-classical approach
that adapts – to the contemporary economic environment - the famous Milton
Friedman’s statement that the social responsibility of the firm is to make profits
(Friedman, 1970).
The second stream refers to a neo-contractualist approach, mainly
developed by Lorenzo Sacconi (2004, 2005), that can be considered as an
insightful application of incomplete contracts theory, strongly characterized by
a contractualist-oriented ethical perspective.
The third stream is the relational approach developed by Bruni and
Zamagni (2004), which takes the issue of social reproduction into account in the
description of the economic system, thereby looking at firms as producers of
socially provided goods.
Finally, we propose an integration between these different perspectives
through the adoption of a conventionalist definition of CSR.
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