Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52236 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 17/2011
Publisher: 
Universität Witten/Herdecke, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Witten
Abstract (Translated): 
The field of Corporate Social Responsibility is described and the theory on it is critically reviewed. It is argued that present theory is insufficient in explaining the phenomenon of CSR and might fail to recognize some of its deeper significance. A new basis for the theoretical analysis of CSR is henceforth developed that aims at understanding CSR as a discourse on the relation of economy and society. It is shown that a foundation for such theory can be found in Max Weber's Economic Sociology and particularly in his modeling of ideal interests as the locus of discourse-driven changes in the relation between economy and society. It is concluded that analyzing CSR as a phenomenon of ideal interests allows for the modeling of its potential to reshape the prevailing form of capitalism and that such analysis could prove to be a starting point for the development of a distinctively sozialökonomische theory of action.
Subjects: 
capitalism
economy and society
corporate social responsibility
corporate social performance
economic sociology
economic history
theory of action
new institutionalism in economic sociology
Max Weber
protestant ethics
social economics
ideal interests
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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