A Number Of Issues Of Corporate Social Responsibility Research

Since 20th century the theory of the corporate social responsibility has appeared as an important concept in many domains such as the economic, the legal science, ethics as well as the management study. In the last few years it also becomes the focal point in particular which our country pays attention, it is also a basic thought to constructs harmonious relations between the company and the society in our country. This article mainly discusses four aspects of corporate social responsibility. It attempts to clarify the connotation of the corporate social responsibility, the nature and the characteristic. And finds out the theoretical foundation to take the social responsibility, discovers the factor which influences this theory through analysis of the company's evolution and then discusses our country's legislative question about the corporate social responsibility.Part one: connotation of corporate social responsibility. It has not formed the common understanding as the scholars have the totally different idea about it. In order to master it objectively and scientifically, through analyzing different mainstream viewpoint of scholars home and abroad, the author concludes that corporate social responsibility does not include economical responsibility, it is not legal liability or moral obligation, but is the unity of legal liability and the moral obligation. Corporate social responsibility is that the company should protect and promote the social public welfare besides seeking the shareholders' profit.Part two: evolution and the practice of corporate social responsibility and the factor which influences the corporate to take it. By reviewing the development of corporate social responsibility we get to know that there has been a close relation between economic development and corporate social responsibility. The basic reason for taking the social responsibility is the enterprise's negative influence on the society, its immediate cause rooted in social movementPart three: theoretical foundation to undertake the social responsibility. Stakeholder theory and the state intervention theory powerfully support economic foundation; transformation of legal thought form individual standard to social standard and legal thought about justice and order had indicated legal science foundation. Inseparable relations between...