From Corporate Social Responsibility To Corporate Environmental Responsibility

In the new economic organization role, human has hitherto unknown history of abundant material wealth, and enjoying the highly developed technology brings There was no parallel in history. convenient and comfortable way of life:like consumer goods entered ordinary families cannot think before the refrigerator, washing machine, TV, telephone and so on; aircraft, cruise automobile and so on, convenient and comfortable transportat i on and communication methods has become a part of our everyday life. However, while creating. However, while creating the splendid material wealth at the same time, the development of industrial society is based on environmental resources excessive exploitation and plunder. With enterprises as the representative of human society members act recklessly and care for nobody to the plunder of resources and damage to the environment that historically considered "environmental capacity" infinite "cramped up, the environment can no longer remove human activities damage, the environmental problem is becoming more and more serious, the environment crisis has revealed. Therefore, people began to reflect on the enterprise as the biggest environmental resource users and saboteurs, should assume corresponding responsibi lity. The answer is yes. Then, the environment liability undertaken by the enterprise-enterprise environmental responsibility is a responsibility of what should be what kind of? Long term since, corporate environmental responsibility is considered an important aspect of corporate social responsibility is to belong to, after entering the era of environmental crisis of corporate social responsibility content for the new section. However, hold to rigorous academic attitude in examining the environmental responsibilities of enterprises in question, but gradually appear. First of all, the social responsibility of the enterprise is due to the enterprise survival in the social network, it is difficult for enterprises to provide for oneself to obtain all the social resources to survive in the network society, therefore, the enterprise must through the shoulder some social responsibility to other members of society, in the interests of transferring to make each other get some enterprises all of society’s resources, but also enable enterprises to corresponding to obtain the corresponding social resources from each other, such as labor resources, provided by the supplier of raw materials, the policy of the government legal license etc.. Therefore, the social responsibility of the enterprise relationship, responsibility both are the enterprise and other members of the society. However, in the corporate environmental responsibility, environmental interests, corporate environmental responsibility brings is an indivisible whole interests, the interests of all members of the community and the environment, not for which one or which a few members enjoy the exclusive segmentation. Therefore, the main enterprises are facing, not to be able to be independent of the individual or the combination of individual s, enterprises are facing with the environmental community "". The environmental community is human following community of blood, the geographical community, the spiritual community development to this stage after the society because of the limited environmental capacity, the emergence of environmental crisis, the overall interests of the human environment damage and the environment based on the common interests in the third stage of the existence of the human set form. Different this collection and society, this "person" the collection is not class under the concept of "people", but set under the concept of "people", is the abstract "people can not be separated". Therefore, the corporate environmental responsibility into corporate social responsibility is clearly on the body appeared chaos. The main body of the environmental responsibility of enterprises is no longer the enterprise and individual members of society, or a combination of the social members, but the enterprise and set the abstract concept of indivisible "person". The environmental responsibility of enterprises under the corporate social responsibility in the responsibility nature inevitably need to be open to question. The social responsibility of the enterprise is established based on the exchange relationship between the enterprise and the other members of the society of social resources. According to the mainstream theory of stakeholders, corporate social responsibility and liability level, is each other for the survival and development of enterprises is directly proportional to the degree of influence, that is to say, the legitimacy foundation of corporate social responsibility is the other to price payment enterprise social resources However, the environmental responsibility of enterprises, corporate environmental responsibi 1 ity is the object of the environmental communi ty, is the abstract "person" includes the enterprise itself, enterprise is clearly not in this relationship to achieve price transaction. Since transactions can not be established, the environmental responsibility of enterprises will lose the basis of legitimacy. Therefore, corporate environmental responsibility is clearly not the resources trading relationship is obtained based on the basis of legitimacy establishment. So, the basis of legitimacy of corporate environmental responsibility in where? This paper thinks, should be enterprise for damage to the environment interests of "original sin". The enterprise from its birth, began to environmental resource consumption, and pollution emissions to the environment, the implementation of environmental damage behavior. This is the enterprise "nature of sin", as a member of the community environment, the enterprise’s emission inevitably to the environment caused great damage to the interests of. However is the same as the "original sin", the sewage behavior of such enterprises "inevitable". As long as the out enterprises exist, will "inevitably" developed for environmental damage. But at the same time, because the enterprise as the human survival and development of important economic organization, society and not because of enterprises "environmental" original sin "will this kind of economic organization of enterprises completely eliminated, but only to find a relative balance between the production and business operation behavior of environmental damage the behavior of enterprises and enterprise development, in order to make the enterprise not only to the normal production and business to create wealth for society to promote social, also can through the enterprise bear responsibility for the environment and constraints of environmental damage the behavior of enterprises so that enterprises environmental hazards will not form a fundamental threat to the survival and development of the environmental community. Therefore, the basis of legitimacy of corporate environmental responsibility is the enterprise need a commitment to environmental responsibility for their "original sin" redemption". Based on the theory of corporate environmental responsibility and thus has the system demand and corporate social responsibility are totally different. Corporate social responsibility since is a kind of social resources between enterprises and other members of a social exchange relationship, therefore, in between the two sides should conduct transactions, transactions under what conditions, trading content is set in what such a series of problems more applicable to the discourse of rights under the background of the system. That is to say more suitable for system specification to "soft", more respect for the parties will, with any more. From the existing system design we are not difficult to find this point: either the standard SA8000 or CSR corporate social responsibility, corporate social responsibility report, corporate social responsibility is more remain in the independent choice of social pressure and the enterprise’s. Fven if is the social responsibility of the enterprises in the form of legislation to set down, also have strong and arbitrary lag. For example, one of the most important content of corporate social responsibility is the enterprise need to assume the guarantee of minimum wage workers enjoy the rights of. And the social responsibility of the enterprise the reaction such as in laws, just ask the enterprise to bear such responsibility to workers comply with labor legal relationship, and the relative person for labor relations do not assume such obligations, the parties can be arbitrarily decided in consultation of workers wages. But for the enterprise to bear another important corporate social responsibility, is to consumers of honest and credit liability protection, only in the emergence of the consumers can get relief after the event. Therefore, when a is arbitrary, the lag of system of corporate social responsibility of construction applied to the relationship between the environmental responsibility of enterprises, mandatory, corporate environmental responsibility required legal and precautionary demand will be difficult to obtain the implementation, may be caused by the legal system construction lag and the actual effect of injustice. The environmental responsibility of enterprises need to re construct the legal system of a mandatory has stronger and legality. The system of the law system should not only demands of corporate environmental damage prevention of the responsibility, but also need to bear the environmental damage in the enterprise production process control responsibility, the responsibility of governance and the subsequent need to undertake corporate environmental damage behavior, form a complete pre, in and after the legal liability system, make the enterprise environmental damage could be prevented and the effective control and management.