Tag Archives: Milton Friedman

A Zinger: CSR Now Seen As ‘Potentially Dangerous’

I’m stymied by another article from The Wall Street Journal challenging the plausibility and benefit of corporate social responsibility.  In “The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility” Aneel Karnani takes the Friedmanite view that companies are primarily responsible for maximizing shareholder profits. To make his point that profit trumps social good, he focuses on the relationship between company […]

8 Fallacies About CSR That I’ve Heard This Week

This past week I’ve run into a lot of misconceptions about social responsibility and business.  Taken from conversations with professionals “outside the sector” to those influencing it, from articles, blog posts and comments, here are this week’s top-eight fallacies about corporate social responsibility (CSR). .. It’s a new movement, so there’s time before my company […]