Business Security and Legal Security

Theorising Corporate Social Responsibility as an Essentially Contested Concept: Is a Definition Necessary?

“…It is of interest that one of the early articles of Dean Donham of the Harvard Business School in 1927 titled the social significance of business acknowledged the necessity and importance of a social role for business, in his context arguing for the assumption of social responsibility in the US as capitalism's defence. Over time, it is also interesting to observe that these debates have taken place with varied specific social contexts; in the US during the great depression (Berle, 1931;Dodd, 1932;Donham, 1929); the Cold war (Abrams, 1951;Spector, 2006Spector, , 2008, with the onset of globalisation (Palazzo and Scherer, 2008). Perhaps new strands of CSR or some re-evaluation will take place in the face of impending global recession.…”

“…In addition, it was evident from Dodd's article that business in the 1930s in America was already contemplating and assuming some forms of social responsibility, he cited Mr. Young, a business executive, President Swope of the General Electric Company and Dean Donham of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration as business persons who had in different ways expressed this notion of a social service role for large business. Dean Donham most notably had written in the Harvard Business Review of the necessity for responsibility of businessmen towards other groups in the community as early as 1927 and 1929 (Donham, 1927(Donham, , 1929. It was however in 1950s that CSR found its more popular beginnings with writers such as Abrams (1951) and especially Bowen with his book, Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (Bowen, 1953).…”

The Meaning of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Vision of Four Nations

“…CSR was first mentioned in monographs in 1926 by Clark who notes that business has obligations to society. Although mention had been made of businessmen being responsible for others in the community in the 1920s (Donham, 1927(Donham, , 1929, the first article to appear discussing CSR looks at the responsibilities of corporate managers as trustees in providing ''safety, security, or means of support for that part of the community which is unable to earn its living in the normal channels of work or trade'' (Berle, 1932(Berle, , p. 1365. Other early monographs include Barnard (1938) and Kreps (1940) who look to the inclusion of social responsibilities within the obligations of business.…”

Csr Theory and Practice in Vietnam Hospitality and Tourism Sector: A Literature Review

“…In this context, the direction of economic improvement and social responsibility at the same time has been interesting in many businesses in countries around the world. Long mentioned by several researchers, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) affirms the obligations of firms to society (Bowen & Johnson, 1953;Donham, 1927). The way to think about CSR can be broken down into three aspects: "corporate", "social" and "responsibility".…”