Corporate Social Responsibility: Easy to criticise - but not that easy to achieve
Article from: OGEL 3 (2005), in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
Introduction
Recently, over what started as a rather pleasant lunch, and after a description of the kind of work I do, I found myself once again feeling backed into a corner and losing my appetite. My dining partner complained that large corporations are not really interested in helping developing countries at all or helping society, but are rather just hungry to make money and exploit markets wherever they get the chance. "...it's all about profit and about selling more hamburgers; more services... more of the American way of life ...Companies are not very interested in helping the people in ...