Company Social Responsibility Researches

Abstract

The purpose of the present paper is to offer an integrated overview of corporate social responsibility as an element of business sustainable growth conception. Discussions on corporate social responsibility sprang from the debates over the role of business in environment protection in 1970-s in the developed economies. Yet Russian companies have only recently started paying attention to the problem. An overview we are presenting is thus devoted to major issues concerning corporate social responsibility concept. In order to succeed we introduce a rigorous examination of a number of timely topics mentioned in both foreign and Russian discussion papers and researches. We are investigating the following questions: sustainable growth concept, corporate citizenship, companies’ interactions ith the stakeholders, socially responsible investments, corporate social reporting.