The Research On Corporate Social Responsibility

The modern corporate social responsibility is a product of Western society, its history can be traced back to a few hundred years ago. The concept was first proposed by American scholar Oliver ? Shelton in 1924 suggested that corporate social responsibility for the content of the definition, has always been a debated topic of academic and has no single clear definition. The author believes that corporate social responsibility is an enterprise in creating profits for shareholders, legal liability, we should also bear some of the employees, the community's moral responsibility and philanthropic responsibilities. For decades, Western scholars of corporate social responsibility conducted extensive research and study so that it can continue to deepen the theory and development, formed a business contract theory, stakeholder theory, ownership of socialization theory and corporate citizenship on several major theoretical support. Since the 20th century, 90 years, corporate social responsibility really into the academic study of China's vision of corporate social responsibility, our study also only remain in the corresponding foreign studies in order, summarize, or repair phase, failed to form their own theoretical system . In recent years, the community began to aggressively focus the study of corporate social responsibility, and in 1997 developed the world's first international standards for corporate social responsibility, referred to as SA8000, but have not yet achieved the recognition of the International Organization for Standardization.Now in 2008 in China, the new "Labor Contract Law," The introduction of the Wenchuan earthquake outbreak and the world financial crisis hit corporate social responsibility commitment to put forward a broader and higher requirements. Meanwhile, with the modern corporate social responsibility movement driven, corporate social responsibility has been given more content, companies in addition to shareholders, the need to undertake including compliance with business ethics, protection of labor rights, environmental protection, development charity, donated public welfare undertakings, protection of vulnerable groups such as social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility will help solve the employment problem, to help protect resources and the environment and achieve sustainable development, corporate social responsibility relates to people's lives and health of society as a whole relates to the quality of life and economic life of the normal operation.This article is based on this background, the adoption of corporate social responsibility at home and abroad on the status of theoretical development and practical situation of the study to explore how to build and perfect the system of China's corporate social responsibility, and corporate social responsibility, a number of specific issues or institutional structure to preliminary discussions, to give personal views, such as in improving laws and regulations to try to set up a special "Corporate Social Responsibility Law," perfect "Company Law" specific provisions (such as 45 and 109), improve other relevant laws (such as "trade unions Law, "" anti-monopoly law, "" Environmental Protection Law, "" Social Security Act, "" Consumer Protection Law, "" Product Quality Supervision Law, "" Labor Law "and" Securities Law ", etc.), improve the Board of Directors structure (such as corporate social responsibility to provide for the Commission, as the board of directors must be established or permanent establishment) and the establishment of corporate social responsibility rating systems. In other measures to promote corporate social responsibility to strengthen the promotion of traditional Chinese culture, the social responsibility of entrepreneurs, education (such as Tsinghua University, president, chairman and study class model is worth learning), government guidance, trade union organizations of the rights protection, social supervision of all walks of life and internal self-construction and so on.