한국 CSR의 역사

초록

Today corporate social responsibility(CSR) is increasingly emerging as an issue that demands a response both from business and academic communities. In this study, I seek to explain the history of CSR in Korea. This study aims to understand how CSR is defined in Korea, both in terms of its conceptualization and the guiding rationale and factors that influence its formation. This study utilized sociological perspectives in order to explain the nature and the history of CSR in Korea in terms of rhetoric. Periodical study of institutional arrangements and CSR in Korea reveals that the form and function of its CSR institutional arrangements may differ in terms of how businesses adopt and respond to them: before the 2000s, companies remained in a stage of a state-oriented CSR for the sake of legitimacy, while after the economic crisis, companies have tried to implement strategic CSR as a means of gaining profit (based on the logic of commodity).

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