Corporate Social Responsible

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Qi Ming Zeng

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Corporate Social Responsible

The term corporate socially responsibility (CRS) is a pervasive term in the business world; what exactly does it mean? CSR is an idea that corporations should consider the interest of the society and the environment, by taking responsibilities for the impacts they made in them. The practice of CSR has been a controversy debate within the corporate business world. I personally believe that corporations should only focus on their business and profit because the practice of CSR is such a problematic subject for corporations to deal with; corporations tend to create a lot of problems when they practice CSR.

Corporate hypocrisy is one of the problems which associated with CSR. BP, an oil company which claims to be an environmentally conscious oil company that promised to be "Beyond Petroleum" (Bakan, 2004). Unfortunately when it comes down to business and profit, BP is just an ordinary oil company, and CSR is just empty promises they made to deceive their consumers. Norma Kassi, a member of the Gwich'sin Nation, is an Arctic indigenous people whose villages were built thousands of years ago went to