Angélique Devaux demonstrates the leading role of France in the EU in her contribution on Corporate Social Responsibility in France. Peter Gjørtler presents European Union and Danish Perspectives on CSR. Yilmaz Argüden, the Founder and Chairman of ARGE Consulting in Turkey, explores Civil Society for Good Governance. Frank Emmert introduces the subject with a historic review and offers a critical outlook in Corporate Social Responsibility - Quo Vadis? Dr. The authors also explore how CSR – as a global phenomenon – should be applied and advanced in future for the greatest common good. Corporate Social Responsibility in Comparative Perspective brings together academics and practitioners from around the world in an analysis of CSR as currently understood in different legal systems and legal cultures. However, there must be something relevant about a subject if over 90% of the largest companies in the Western world are regularly updating their websites and corporate profiles to ensure that they will be seen as socially and environmentally responsible, if over half of all larger companies around the world have produced specific reports about their performance with regard to CSR, if one single news organization – Ethical Performance – can list on their website “more than 590 service providers 57 categories consultants, academic institutions, rating agencies, ethical auditors, training providers or research organizations” offering to “help writing and designing your latest corporate responsibility report to manage an ethical supply chain programme on reputation management”, and if a simple entry of “CSR” into the search function of the website of the European Union turns up more than 275,000 documents. Given the high degree of ambiguity about our subject, the reader may wonder why we had to write (another) book about it and why anyone would want to spend the time to read it. The only certainty seems indeed to be that nothing is certain. Corporate Social Responsibility has been called many things: “a passing social fad, an idea whose time has come, a threat to market capitalism, an intrinsic element of corporate responsibility, or even a key to humanity’s long-term survival” (Horrigan).
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