The Impact, Critics, and Future of Corporate Social Responsibility

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

The importance of understanding impact.
The ways we learn about impact and the ways it is assessed.
A framework for understanding the different dimensions to impact.
An overview of the impact of CSR to date.
The challenges of assessing impact.
Why some see CSR as being anti-business or anti-free markets.
How some regard CSR as being too pro-business.
Why CSR has been criticised for failing to deal with major areas of the interaction of business with society.
Why some feel that CSR needs to become more rigorous and tougher in its approach.
The major trends that will affect what is meant by CSR over the coming years.
Aspects of contemporary CSR that may be refined or enhanced.
Evolving types of approach to CSR.
What CSR reveals about the changing role of business in twenty-first-century society.