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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Three Sectors in Asia: Contexts and Perspectives

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This chapter introduces theories, concepts, and issues related to corporate social responsibility , CSR imposition on the private sector, government moral authority in reigning in corporate greed through CSR legislation, etc. The first section of the chapter highlights the features and factors related to “corporate social responsibility,” in the context of this volume. The second section shows the external influence on national efforts in codifying and/or standardizing CSR concluding that its success depends on the political features, government–business relationship, and other dimensions of political economy in each country. Therefore, the next section highlights the main economic and political features of the countries selected for studies in this volume. The last section provides an overview of the major discussions and conclusions in different chapters in this volume.

The original version of the book was revised: For detailed information please see Erratum. The erratum to this chapter is available at 10.1007/978-1-4939-6915-9_11

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Notes

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    The United Nations in 1986, to rectify the “positive rights” gap in the UNDHR, 1948, crafted the UN Declaration on the Right to Development to ensure everybody’s entitlement to, participation in, contribution to, and enjoyment of economic, social, cultural, and political development and self-determination (Article 1). The “explicitly political” declaration was not supported by most of the high-income countries because the underlying assumption of the declaration is believed to have been that the existing resources must be shared equitably assisting the marginalized people to assert their rights to these resources (Nyamu-Musembi and Cornwall 2004).

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    Asia has 47 countries (including the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) as well as the economies of Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, Taiwan, and Palestine. Due to a lack of data, the latter countries and economies are not included in the discussion.

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Hasan, S. (2017). Corporate Social Responsibility and the Three Sectors in Asia: Contexts and Perspectives. In: Hasan, S. (eds) Corporate Social Responsibility and the Three Sectors in Asia. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6915-9_1

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