Question 1:
“There is only one social responsibility of business: to employ its resources and engage in activities designed to raise its profits”
(Milton Friedman, 1970)
(a) Illustrate out how the definition of CSR has evolved over time and is still a contested concept.
(b) Critically analyze the view that CSR is an additional cost jeopardising the entire performance and sustainability of organisation.
Question 2:
(a) What are the factors in social environment leading to raised business criticism?
(b) How does this impact on social contract?
Question 3:
‘Only human beings have a moral responsibility for their actions’. Critically measure this proposition in context of attempts to ascribe a moral responsibility to corporation.
Question 4:
Using instances in the Mauritian context examine the changing relationship between business and civil society.
Question 5:
How is CSR being challenged by changing shape of contemporary multinational corporation?