| With the development of the economic globalization, the transnational corporations playa more important role in the world economy. These transnational corporations promoteeconomic development, at the same time, they also bring about a series of social issues,mainly focus on the weakening of social responsibility, such as the violations of labor andconsumer’s legitimate rights, the damage to the environment and so on. This brings muchnegative effects on the economic and social development of the country. There has beengenerally reached a consensus that the transnational corporations should undertake socialresponsibility. Recently, the weakening events of the transnational corporations’ socialresponsibility have presented an intensified trend in our country, which caused a wide rangeof social concern. It is urgent to define the social responsibility of transnational corporationsin China and take its social responsibility into the legal regulation within theoretical orpractical circle. Through the description of the various manifestations of the weakening socialresponsibility of transnational corporations in China, the present thesis makes an in-depthanalysis of its reasons, and put forward a perfect legal implementation mechanism for thesocial responsibility of transnational corporations in China, which will promote thesetransnational corporations to better fulfill their social responsibility.Except for the introduction and conclusion, the whole paper consists of four parts,totaling more than20000words.The introduction part makes an overview of the current situation of transnationalcorporations’ social responsibility from academic aspect, points out its weakness, andintroduces the content, research methods and innovations of the current paper.Firstly, it is an overview of transnational corporations’ social responsibility. This partcontains two small sections. The first section introduces the definition of social responsibilityof company. Through analyzing the opinions of international organizations and differentscholars at home and abroad, the author comes to her own definition of company’s socialresponsibility. The second section introduces the definition of transnational corporations’social responsibility. Through the analysis of the transnational corporations’ definition and itsparticularity, it summed up social responsibility of transnational corporations, and focuses onthe social responsibility that transnational corporations should fulfill in the host country.Secondly, it is about the current situation of the transnational corporations’ fulfillment of their social responsibility. This part is divided into two sections. The first section brieflydescribed the overall condition of the transnational corporations in China to fulfill their socialresponsibilities. The second section mainly focuses on analyzing the concrete manifestation ofthe weakening of transnational corporations’ social responsibility in China, elaborated by therelevant data and specific case including transnational corporations in China infringing on theinterests of employees and consumers, environment pollution, commercial bribery and so on.Thirdly, this part explores the legal reasons that may cause the weakening of socialresponsibility for transnational corporations in China. This part analyzes the reasons for theweakening of social responsibility of transnational corporations in China from three aspects.First of all, it is due to the relevant laws and regulations are not sound, specifically, on the onehand, the existing law is too sweeping, and lack of manipulation. On the other hand, parts oflegislation are in blank state that can not be availably followed. Next, the reason for theweakening of transnational corporations’ social responsibility is due to the lack of lawenforcement. First is the lack of awareness of law enforcement. Second is that lawenforcement is not enough. Finally, this paper analyzes other legal system that causes theweakening of social responsibility of transnational corporations in China.Fourthly, it is to improve the implementation mechanism of the law for transnationalcorporations to fulfill their social responsibility in China. The author provides somesuggestions from four aspects. The first section is legislation, namely the improvement oflegislation, to form a legal system. The second section is from the law enforcement aspect,namely to improve the awareness of law enforcement, and strengthen law enforcement efforts.The strict law enforcement, only based on a sound legal system can promote transnationalcorporations to fulfill their social responsibility in China. The third section is concerning otherexternal measures to promote transnational corporations to fulfill their social responsibilities,such as to strengthen the supervision of the government, to play the supervisory role of thesocial forces. The fourth section is the self-regulatory measures of transnational corporations,that is to strengthen the control of the parent company to subsidiaries and to formulate aunified production code.Conclusion summarized the promotion of transnational corporations in China to fulfilltheir social responsibility, pointed out the improvement of legal implementation mechanismsfor transnational corporations to fulfill their social responsibility, and on this basis, the presentpaper proposed the idea and vision with transnational corporations’ better fulfillment of their social responsibilities in China. |
