Research On Contemporary Corporate Social Responsibility

Under the guidance of the traditional principles of civil and commercial law, corporate institutions once went through its golden ages. But with the company's strength growing increasingly, it greatly benefits the social economy, and in the meanwhile brings a series of social problems, such as ignoring the staffs rights, befouling environment, putting aside creditor's interests under the umbrella of limited responsibility, damaging consumer's rights and interests, being indifferent to the social concerns and etc. Thereupon some scholars point out that the company should not merely think about for the interests of itself and shareholders but also bear social responsibility.Corporate social responsibility theory was born to begin by oneself, produced enormous dispute on the theory circle. A good many scholars put forward their opinions on the questions like how to define corporate social responsibility, whether the company should bear social responsibility or not, How to limit the content Tange of corporate social responsibility, How to ensure the realization of corporate social responsibility and so on. This paper tries to probe into this theory from above-mentioned respects and combined with China's present legislative situation it makes every effort to structure the ideal system in order to ensure company's efficiency and to promote socialist market economy to develop healthily.The content of the article is divided into five major parts altogether. Chapter one introduces the origin of corporate social responsibility theory and carries on evaluation and analysis to different views about the theory.In chapter two the author proposes the scientific intension of corporate social responsibility, namely, it means the company should undertake the obligation to safeguard and promote social interests while seeking rationalized company's profit.Chapter three seeks the theoretical foundation of corporate social responsibility. It describes the necessity and rationality of the existence of corporate social responsibility from different aspects including the theories of the influence of company's power, ownership socializing, social interests and interested party.Chapter four introduces briefly the contents of corporate social responsibility, particularly the social responsibilities of employees, customers, creditors, environment, community and public service activities.Chapter five is the focal point of this paper. Combined with China's presentlegislative situation, the author puts forward his own opinion on how to ensure the realization of corporate social responsibility, including the following respects: first, to take the rationalization of the company's profit and the bearing of corporate social responsibility as company's dual value goal; second, to define closer the carrier and target of corporate social responsibility; third, to perfect the corporate governance structure and balance its interests; fourth, to emphasize that the director, especially the independent director should perform corporate social responsibility; fifth, to improve the system of information disclosure; sixth, to advocate pursuing the international standard of corporate social responsibility so as to be in line with international standards; seventh, since there is still a gap in the legislation about the responsibility that the company should bear for the community and public service activities, the author proposes to establish relevant legislation through the incentive legal norm.