FeaturedCorporate Social Responsibility: a multidimensional challenge

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not a new term, and it’s an even older practice. We have the American economist Howard Bowen to thank for coining the phrase in 1953. However, many companies had incorporated some form of CSR into their way of doing business for centuries before then. Perhaps the first marked increase in the adoption of responsible business principles and practices was triggered by the launching in the 1970s of a “Social Contract”....