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Corporate Social Responsibility: A Three-Domain Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Mark S. Schwartz  and
Archie B. Carroll
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Extrapolating from Carroll’s four domains of corporate social responsibility (1979) and Pyramid of CSR (1991), an alternative approach to conceptualizing corporate social responsibility (CSR) is proposed. A three-domain approach is presented in which the three core domains of economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities are depicted in a Venn model framework. The Venn framework yields seven CSR categories resulting from the overlap of the three core domains. Corporate examples are suggested and classified according to the new model, followed by a discussion of limitations and teaching and research implications.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 2003 , pp. 503 - 530
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