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A reluctant stakeholder? On the perception of corporate social responsibility among European trade unions

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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:17 authored by Lutz Preuss
Seen from a national business system perspective, the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerges as a specifically US-American response to challenges regarding the corporate place in society. With the spread of American capitalism, however, CSR is bound to come into contact - and conflict - with other approaches to the role of business in society that have been shaped by different national cultures. Within Europe, one such area of potential conflict concerns the role of organised labour in representing employee interests. Studying the perceptions held by European trade unions on stakeholding, as one of the important concepts in the CSR discourse, does indeed reveal a considerable degree of union scepticism of CSR and its terminology. There is, however, also embryonic evidence of at least some unions attempting to link the CSR discourse to traditional union goals. Furthermore, national differences in union responses to CSR are beginning to emerge, which may, in turn, further shape the evolution of national business systems in Europe.

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  • Published

Journal

Business Ethics: A European Review

ISSN

0962-8770

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

2

Volume

17

Page range

149-160

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  • Business and Management Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-10-04

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