How is Corporate Social Responsibility Understood in China?
Author
Peng, Jun
Term
4. term
Publication year
2008
Abstract
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the idea that companies should account for their social and environmental impacts. It has been debated in academia for over four decades and practiced by many firms in developed countries for more than 20 years. Today, CSR is gaining prominence in China, a key link in the global supply chains of the capitalist world system. This thesis examines four main actors in China’s CSR landscape: the Chinese government; subsidiaries of transnational corporations (TNCs); state-owned enterprises (SOEs); and non–public-owned enterprises (NPOEs, i.e., non-state or private firms). It asks two questions: (1) How does the Chinese government understand CSR, and what policies has it introduced? (2) How do companies in China—SOEs, NPOEs, and TNC subsidiaries—respond to CSR and put it into practice?
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), også kaldet virksomheders sociale ansvar, er idéen om, at virksomheder bør tage ansvar for deres sociale og miljømæssige påvirkning. Begrebet har været diskuteret i akademia i over fire årtier og har været udbredt blandt virksomheder i udviklede lande i mere end 20 år. Nu vinder CSR frem i Kina, som er et centralt led i de globale forsyningskæder i det kapitalistiske verdenssystem. Dette speciale ser på fire hovedaktører i Kinas CSR-landskab: den kinesiske regering, datterselskaber af transnationale selskaber (TNC’er), statsejede virksomheder (SOE’er) og ikke-offentligt ejede virksomheder (NPOE’er, dvs. ikke-statslige eller private virksomheder). Specialet stiller to spørgsmål: 1) Hvordan forstår den kinesiske regering CSR, og hvilke politikker udsteder den? 2) Hvordan reagerer virksomheder i Kina—SOE’er, NPOE’er og TNC-datterselskaber—på CSR og omsætter det til praksis?
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