Corporate Responsibility Standards
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND BUSINESS ETHICS, pp. 263-284, M. Painter-Morland, R. Ten Bos, eds., Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
21 Pages Posted: 13 Jun 2012
Date Written: July 1, 2011
Abstract
This paper discusses so-called corporate responsibility standards (e.g., the Global Reporting Initiative and Social Accountability 8000) from the perspective of post-structuralist philosophy, in particular Derridian thinking. I introduce these different initiatives and contrast them against each other. Next, I offer a discussion of their limits in general, and their paradoxical nature in particular. I conclude with a variety of practical recommendation suggesting that, while corporate responsibility standards can potentially offer good managerial guidance they are also flawed in a variety of ways.
Keywords: corporate social responsibility, sustainability, Derrida, global reporting Initiative, SA 8000, global compact
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