从食品安全角度看企业社会责任的政府监管问题

企业承担的社会责任往往会与企业的营利性相冲突,为了避免企业单纯注重短期经济效益而对社会带来严重危害,有必要将一部分企业外部不经济性使用法律进行内部化,将一部分企业社会责任纳入法律的视野。国家行政执法机关有职责对法律层面上的企业社会责任进行严格监管,这种活动应当是一种主动的执法监管行为,而我国在政府对企业社会责任监管问题上的立法亟待完善,执法人员的法律意识、服务意识和安全意识有待于全面提高。     

公司治理过程中的社会责任探究

营利性的公司,对其决策机关确认某一事项为社会多数人所希望的之后,便应放弃营利的意图,从而符合多数人对该公司的期望。公司的社会责任,除了必须依照法令行事,即公司遵守法律规定的责任外,还必须承担“公司的伦理责任”。由于近年来公司在营利的同时也带来了一定的社会责任问题,如何调和公司利益与全体社会的利益并使之平衡,应是当务之急,而公司应负社会责任也是势所必然的趋势。     

跨国公司社会责任的东道国法律规制问题研究

经济全球化，企业对环境、劳工、产品质量等社会责任已经超越国界。不同国家法律规制的差异，为投资者寻求企业社会责任法律和政策的比较优势，实现更大的经济利益提供了可能。然而跨国公司母国和东道国法律规范和政策的差异，极易导致跨国公司在追逐企业营利性的同时，对东道国环境、社会责任的忽略甚至侵害。     

物流快递公司社会责任研究

物流快递公司社会责任包括法律责任、经济责任和道德责任。公司是以营利为目的的法人,其存在的根本目的是最大可能地创造社会财富,因此经济责任是第一位的社会责任;公司营利必须遵守国家法律,因此公司应当承担法律责任;公司承担道德责任在本质上是社会发展的需要,也是公司自身利益的需要,在根本上两者是一致的。     

股东营利性:公司法人营利性的根源

股东营利性作为投资公司的根本动因是促进公司资本积累,整体经济效率提高的一个重要原则。坚持股东营利性不仅可以保障公司社会责任的有效实现,也可以在完善公司治理的基础上找准公司经营理念、价值取向,从根本上促进经济的和谐发展。     

公司社会责任若干问题的思考

公司社会责任理论修正了传统公司法奉行的股东中心论,其强调公司在以营利为最大化目标的前提下,还应承担一定的社会责任.本文认为,公司承担社会责任与其营利性目标并不冲突,反而会大大增强公司的竞争力,因此,应大力倡导公司自觉的承担社会责任.     

论公司社会责任的法律属性

公司社会责任是一个多学科研究的论题,公司社会责任最初源于社会公众对公司行为的道德考量,这种道德责任逐步发展并趋于统一,使公司社会责任逐渐有了立法的可能性与可行性,公司社会责任所涉及的社会利益需要运用道德和法律两种手段加以规范,各国在立法实践中也逐步确认了公司社会责任,充分体现出公司社会责任的法律属性。     

公司社会责任的法理学思考

虽然公司社会责任是一个涉及多个学科的问题,但法律是保障公司社会责任的实现的重要途径。所以应对公司社会责任的进行法理学上的思考:正义与秩序的价值理念是公司社会责任的法理学基础,公司社会责任反映了立法价值取向从个人本位到社会本位的变化,是法律对利益进行调整的结果,法律的平衡思想促使公司社会责任法治化的实现。     

公司社会责任及其性质探析——论我国《公司法》关于社会责任条款

随着公司规模的扩大和对社会的影响逐步加深,各国对公司各方面的研究不断深入,其中有关公司社会责任的研究也逐渐增多,学者及公众认为公司应当承担社会责任的呼声日渐高涨。我国在对原有《公司法》做出修订后,新颁布的《公司法》也对之予以规定,但由于对公司社会责任的研究存在不足,特别是关于公司社会责任性质方面,使得新《公司法》中的规定存在一定缺陷。公司社会责任应当包括道德责任和法律责任两方面,两者相互依存,在一定情况下可以相互转换。通过对公司社会责任性质的研究,尤其是对这两种不同责任及其相互关系的研究,对我国新《公司法》中有关的条文予以分析、完善。     

试论商法的立法原则

商法追求营利性,讲究效益的价值取向最集中地体现在法律原则上。商法除了具备主体地位平等,诚实信用,公平交易这类与民法相一致的原则外,还有它独特的立法原则,归纳起来,我们认为主要是以下三个原则:交易便捷原则、外观公示原则和严格责任原则。     

The double bottom line: Profit and social benefit

There is an important shift in business focus in the United States that is empowering companies to not only declare their intent to be ethical firms which do good while making a profit, but also to submit proof of that commitment for annual review by outside evaluators. A new business model is providing structure for non-profits that wish to grow, for for-profits that wish to be socially responsible, and for individuals who wish to invest in companies with a commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainability. B Lab has taken the lead in providing the models necessary for this shift to a focus on the double bottom line: profit and social benefit. It has created the legal documents for state legislatures to use to pass a new corporate structure called the ‘benefit corporation.’ In the 3 years of its existence, legislatures in 19 states and the District of Columbia have ratified the new corporate structure. Likewise, B Lab offers a performance assessment program to become a Certified B Corporation, independent of legal corporate status, which also serves as an evaluation program for benefit corporations. Additionally, it has created a ratings agency and analytics platform, the Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS), to help institutional investors evaluate the impact of companies’ corporate social responsibility initiatives. This article discusses the requirements and benefits of the new models and addresses the issues that have been raised about them. It also identifies companies that are incorporating the benefit corporation structure and are becoming Certified B Corporations.     

Corporate Social Responsibility in Chinese Law——On the Section 5 of the Company Law of China

The Principle of Corporate Social Responsibility in Chinese Law
In China, a lot of ill-formed business activities exist, the good market order hasn＇t realized and the commerce hasn＇t reached the perfoect operating status. In addition to those, the personal and corporate credit systems haven＇t been completely established yet, the merchants still place their profit in primary position without considering the public interest or with less consideration, and the social problems caused by many companies with bad faith are more outstanding, so it is necessary to supplement and strengthen corporate social responsi.bility in Chinese Law.     

Price competition between green and non green products under corporate social responsible firm

This article deals with a newsvendor inventory model in light of green product marketing of corporate social responsible firms. In this model, comparison between green and non green marketing is analyzed including subsidy and tax implementation by Government where the Government offers higher subsidy and lower tax to the green producer unlike the lower subsidy and higher tax to the non green producer. There is also price contest between green and non green producer as the demands of the products are dependent on sales price, carbon emission and corporate social responsibility index. Assuming the cost and profit parameters, an expected profit function of the systems is formulated and maximized analytically. Finally, numerical examples are illustrated to justify the proposed model.     

In defense of social responsibility

The purpose of the present article is to argue against the minimalist theory of social responsibility (i.e., that the sole responsibility of business is to maximize profit in conformity with law), particularly as it is advanced by Butler D. Shaffer. Against this view, I argue that such a theory does not necessarily support or achieve greater levels of corporate efficiency than does a more demanding theory of social responsibility, and that the argument for the former view is no more valueneutral than for the latter. Finally, I argue that Shaffer fails to show that the more maximal theory demands too much from executives and is too unclear to be applicable to their decision-making.     

Are Organisation Researchers too Obsessed with the Economic Responsibility of the Firm?

The original intent of business education in America focused on the development of professional managers who would look after the interests of society. As economic and shareholder theories influenced business education, firm performance became the manager’s top – if not only – priority. The economic responsibility of the firm also appears to be dominating scholarly interest in organisations as well. However, business firms constitute part of the fabric of society and closer attention should be paid by organisation researchers to the social responsibilities of the firm. In doing so, a more balanced research approach can be achieved. In this article, we give evidence that research within the study of the organisation, specifically in the field of management, has predominately turned its attention to the economic responsibility of the firm. We close by demonstrating that other fields within organisation research also appear to be favouring the study of performance and we offer suggestions as to how scholars might better address the firm’s role in society beyond its economic responsibility. Jeremy Galbreath is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Curtin University of Technology where he is studying corporate social responsibility (CSR). He has published extensively, with over 50 articles in print and 3 book chapters. Dr. Galbreath's research and teaching focuses on strategic management, the resource-based view of the firm, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder management, the ethicality of profit making strategies, intellectual capital and information technology.     

Public relations and corporate social responsibility: Some issues arising

The paper questions current assumptions about the benefits of corporate social responsibility and the claims that corporations make on behalf of their corporate social responsibility programmes. In particular, the paper suggests that the use of corporate social responsibility for public relations ends raises moral problems over the motivation of corporations. The paper cautions that the justifications which corporations employ may either be immoral or inaccurate with regard to the empirical evidence gained from a small-scale qualitative study carried out in the UK at a time when the practice of corporate social responsibility was expanding quickly (1989). It is noticeable, in retrospect, that great emphasis is placed upon environmental rather than social responsibility. This implies that organisations are primarily reactive in their development of corporate social responsibility programmes and that they respond to external pressures rather than working out the nature of their corporate responsibilities. It might suggest that corporations only take such actions when they feel compelled to do so by consumerist and environmentalist lobbies. The paper argues that corporations do need to find moral justifications for their moral activities and to ensure that corporate social responsibility practice lives up to the claims made by public relations practitioners. The paper explores the nature of public relations and illustrates how its responsibility for corporate social responsibility extends beyond truthfulness in publicity.Jacquie L'Etang has postgraduate degrees in history, public relations, and social justice. She is a lecturer in public relations at the University of Stirling, Scotland, teaching on the M.Sc. in Public Relations full-time and distance learning courses. She teaches design and editorial management, communications, and business ethics. Her research interests are in corporate social responsibility and the history of public relations.     

Influential Factors of the Social Responsibility of Newspaper Corporations in South Korea

This study examined influential factors of newspaper corporation social responsibility and evaluated corporate social responsibility using a newspaper corporate social responsibility index. Results of this study, which was conducted by survey, showed that arbitrative, essential, and cultural activities were influential factors comprised of newspaper corporate social responsibility. In addition, the findings indicated that higher corporate social responsibility index was not accompanied by Korean newspaper corporations with larger circulations.     

公司社会责任与我国董事制度的重构

公司社会责任理论认为,公司在追求股东利益最大化的同时,还应对其他利益相关者和社会承担相应的责任。我国公司法制定时对此没有考虑,通过对两大法系董事制度比较并针对我国的具体情况提出了“两分三三制”原则来组建董事会。     

企业社会责任与企业财务绩效关联性分析——基于浙江纺织企业的调查数据

企业社会责任与企业财务绩效的关联性决定企业的社会责任态度和行为。通过对浙江纺织行业样本企业数据的计量分析发现,前期企业财务绩效和后期企业的社会责任状况显著正相关;而前期企业社会责任和后期企业财务绩效之间、同期企业社会责任和企业财务绩效之间呈负相关趋势,但统计不显著。出现这种结果的原因可能在于当前中国社会责任市场缺乏,企业社会责任行为的推动力是行政力量而非市场力量,企业社会责任不能顺利转化或提升企业绩效。构建社会责任市场以实现企业和社会的双赢,将有效改善中国企业社会责任状况并促使持久的企业社会责任行为。