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Ethical Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility. The Contribution of Christian Social Thought

In: Corporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy

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  • Helen Alford

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We need to start from a general understanding of what a business is. Businesses are made up of people and things (money, capital equipment, assets in general), and are organized according to certain legal forms and principles. Human ingenuity has arrived at this combination of elements in order to achieve certain goals. As such, business structures represent a combination of natural and artificial (or man-made) components; natural components include the people in the business and their work, whereas artificial components include the policies the business adopts, as well as the legal form it has. The business is therefore a complex form, neither purely natural nor purely artificial.

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  • Helen Alford, 2012. "Ethical Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility. The Contribution of Christian Social Thought," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Gianfranco Zanda (ed.), Corporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy, chapter 9, pages 189-211, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-35545-3_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230355453_9
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