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Corporate Social Responsibility

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This chapter addresses the theme of corporate social responsibility, highlighting the contributions of the most relevant theoretical perspectives and the participation offered by the principal supranational and international institutions. In the analysis of the various contributions we will consider the necessity of going beyond an approach oriented towards single acts of social responsibility or mere philanthropy in favor of one that is able to internalize a perspective that holistically reconsiders what it means to be and to operate a company. Such a reconsideration can only begin from the elements that are increasingly recognized as crucial in determining the success of companies and organizations: persons, with their knowledge and intelligence.

Men have made millions of laws to punish crimes, but they have not established even one to reward virtues. (Giacinto Dragonetti)

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Notes

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    Notably: the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Industrial Development Program (UNIDO), and, since June 2004, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

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    http://www.unglobalcompact.org

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    http://www.unglobalcompact.org/HowToParticipate/Business_Participation/index.html

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    http://www.unglobalcompact.org/COP/COE.html

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    http://www.oecd.org/about/

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Argiolas, G. (2017). Corporate Social Responsibility. In: Social Management. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54582-0_4

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