Public Policies on Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role of Governments in Europe |
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Authors: | Laura Albareda Josep M Lozano Tamyko Ysa |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for Social Innovation, ESADE Business School (University Ramon Llull-URL), Avda. Pedralbes, 60-62, Barcelona, 08034, Spain;(2) Institute of Public Management (IDGP), ESADE Business School (University Ramon Llull-URL), Avda. Pedralbes, 60-62, Barcelona, 08034, Spain |
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Abstract: | Over the last decade, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been defined first as a concept whereby companies decide voluntarily
to contribute to a better society and cleaner environment and, second, as a process by which companies manage their relationship␣with
stakeholders (European Commission, 2001. Nowadays, CSR has become a priority issue on governments’ agendas. This has changed governments’ capacity to act and impact
on social and environmental issues in their relationship with companies, but has also affected the framework in which CSR
public policies are designed: governments are incorporating multi-stakeholder strategies. This article analyzes the CSR public policies in European advanced democracies, and more specifically the EU-15 countries, and provides explanatory keys on how governments
have understood, designed and implemented their CSR public policies. The analysis has entailed the classification of CSR public
policies taking into consideration the actor to which the governments’ policies were addressed. This approach to the analysis
of CSR public policies in the EU-15 countries leads us to observe coinciding lines of action among the different countries
analyzed, which has enabled us to propose a ‹four ideal’ typology model for governmental action on CSR in Europe: Partnership, Business in the Community, Sustainability, and Citizenship, and Agora. The main contribution of this article is to propose an analytical framework to analyze CSR public policies, which provide
a perspective on the relationships between governments, businesses, and civil society stakeholders, and enable us to incorporate
the analysis of CSR public policies into a broader approach focused on social governance.
Laura Albareda is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Innovation, ESADE, Universidad Ramon Llull-URL. She is principal
researcher and manager of the Observatory on Socially Responsible Investment in Spain. Her areas of research and academic
interest are Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Global Governance and Public Authorites, Governments and Public
Policies on Corporate Social Responsibility and Socially Responsible Investment.
Josep M. Lozano is currently Professor & Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Innovation, ESADE Business School (URL). He is Co-founder
of ética, Economía y Dirección (Spanish branch of the EBEN) and member of the editorial board of Ethical Perspectives and Society and Business Review. He was member of the Catalan Government’s Commission on Values, and is member of the Spanish Ministry of Employment and
Social Affairs’ Commission of Experts on CSR. He has been a highly commended runner-up in the European Faculty Pioneer Awards
of the Beyond Grey Pinstripes and is author of Ethics and Organizations. Understanding Business Ethics as a Learning Process (Kluwer).
Tamyko Ysa is an Assistant Professor of the Institute of Public Management, and the Department of Business Policy at ESADE. Her areas
of interest are the management of partnerships and their impact on the creation of public value; the design, implementation
and evaluation of public policies, and the relations between companies and governments. She is the Principal Researcher of
the Research Group for Leadership and Innovation in Public Management (GLIGP). She is coauthor of Governments and Corporate
Social Responsibility (Palgrave MacMillan). |
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Keywords: | corporate social responsibility public policies governance public– private partnership welfare state |
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