Response to Q.1a
The proliferation of glossy and unrealistic CSR reports as well as inaccurate CSR ratings and rankings has contributed to the failure of companies to understand the responsibility. By giving in to pressure groups among the stakeholders, the companies further deepen the divide between actual responsibility and unrealistic short term action. Moreover, by basing their CSR actions on the views of the outsiders, they are doing injustice to their own capabilities in terms of helping the society . The companies have so far focused on the relationship between business and society as that of tension rather than interdependence. Companies have in ...
