Corporate Social Responsibility to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Extending Sustainable Development in Society

Title
Corporate Social Responsibility to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Extending Sustainable Development in Society
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Rahim, Mia Mahmudur
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0637-8445
Email: mrahim@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mrahim
Editor
Editor(s): Samuel O Idowu, Abubakar S Kasum and Asli Yuksel Mermod
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Gower Publishing Limited
Place of publication
Farnham, United Kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.4324/9781315599915
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/27562
Abstract
Sustainable development (SD) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) could be perceived as a meta-fix whose ideas and philosophies have evolved from an objective perspective to one of process. While SD aims to sustain economic growth with the required maintenance and protection of the environment, CSR is a long-term business strategy that balances corporate rights with economic, environmental and social obligations towards its stakeholders. The semantics of these two terms have changed over time to a point where these concepts have become interrelated processes for ensuring a longreaching development. This chapter posits the notion that SD can contribute to realizing the objective of integrating development throughout society if small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could be sensitized to the core dimensions of CSR.
Link
Citation
People, Planet and Profit: Socio-Economic Perspectives of CSR, p. 181-197
ISBN
9781409466499
1409466493
9781409466505
9781409466512
1409466507
1409466515
Start page
181
End page
197

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