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| Author: | Palazzo, G. Richter, U. |
| Title: | CSR business as usual? The case of the tobacco industry |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2005 : NOV I, VOL 61:4, p. 387-401 |
| Index terms: | corporate philanthropy corporate responsibility ethics business ethics responsibility tobacco industry cigarette industry stakeholders |
| Freeterms: | corporate citizenship social responsibility |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Tobacco companies are eager to position themselves as good corporate citizens. This article shows how the deep distrust towards these companies has to do with the lethal nature of their products and the dubious behaviour of their representatives in recent decades. Important aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) theory and practice are showed to be ineffective or even counterproductive in the tobacco industry. This paper suggests to differentiate between transactional and transformational CSR arguing that tobacco firms can only operate on a transactional level. |
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