---
_id: '56372'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: '<jats:p> The task of this paper is to trace the academic discourse on corporate
    social responsibility (CSR) by discussing how CSR approaches and models relate
    profit goals and social goals of the corporation. I show that CSR approaches that
    dominate the academic discourse either instrumentalize the social, idealize the
    corporate, or separate the corporate from the social. Based on a critical political
    economy perspective I argue that it is necessary to consider mutual interrelations
    between profit goals and social goals. This perspective reveals an antagonism
    between the corporate and the social that points to the impossibility of CSR.
    Critical CSR research thus far has failed to draw the necessary conclusions from
    its own analysis: despite acknowledging the structural flaws of the concept of
    CSR, critics have hardly made any attempts to overcome it. I argue that despite
    its ideological character CSR contains a rational element. Realizing this rational
    kernel however requires going beyond CSR. I therefore suggest a new concept that
    turns CSR off its head and places it upon its feet. </jats:p>'
alternative_title:
- A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of Corporate Social Responsibility
author:
- first_name: Marisol
  full_name: Sandoval, Marisol
  id: '110918'
  last_name: Sandoval
citation:
  ama: Sandoval M. From CSR to RSC. <i>Review of Radical Political Economics</i>.
    2015;47(4):608-624. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415574266">10.1177/0486613415574266</a>
  apa: Sandoval, M. (2015). From CSR to RSC. <i>Review of Radical Political Economics</i>,
    <i>47</i>(4), 608–624. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415574266">https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415574266</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Sandoval_2015, title={From CSR to RSC}, volume={47}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415574266">10.1177/0486613415574266</a>},
    number={4}, journal={Review of Radical Political Economics}, publisher={SAGE Publications},
    author={Sandoval, Marisol}, year={2015}, pages={608–624} }'
  chicago: 'Sandoval, Marisol. “From CSR to RSC.” <i>Review of Radical Political Economics</i>
    47, no. 4 (2015): 608–24. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415574266">https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415574266</a>.'
  ieee: 'M. Sandoval, “From CSR to RSC,” <i>Review of Radical Political Economics</i>,
    vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 608–624, 2015, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415574266">10.1177/0486613415574266</a>.'
  mla: Sandoval, Marisol. “From CSR to RSC.” <i>Review of Radical Political Economics</i>,
    vol. 47, no. 4, SAGE Publications, 2015, pp. 608–24, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613415574266">10.1177/0486613415574266</a>.
  short: M. Sandoval, Review of Radical Political Economics 47 (2015) 608–624.
date_created: 2024-10-07T12:25:32Z
date_updated: 2024-10-07T15:55:48Z
doi: 10.1177/0486613415574266
intvolume: '        47'
issue: '4'
language:
- iso: eng
page: 608-624
publication: Review of Radical Political Economics
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0486-6134
  - 1552-8502
publication_status: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
status: public
title: From CSR to RSC
type: journal_article
user_id: '110918'
volume: 47
year: '2015'
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