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CSR: Between Management Strategy and a New Paradigm of Thought

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In the light of the noticeably disproportionate relationship between the theoretical development of the concept of CSR and its significantly slower implementation in economic practice, it seems all the more important to analyse the causes of the imperfect or clearly delayed practical implementation of this developing theory. Within the framework of such an analysis, it seems necessary on the one hand to trace the historical development of the idea itself, that is, how it matured theoretically, while on the other hand tracing the substantive phenomena involved in its deployment, and thus establish the current level of its implementation.

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Filek, J. (2015). CSR: Between Management Strategy and a New Paradigm of Thought. In: Fryzel, B. (eds) The True Value of CSR. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137433206_3

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