What is Corporate Social Responsibility?
Introduction.
Would you believe it if I tell you that the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1962) had opposed to the underlying premise of Corporate Social Responisibilty and feel that the sole responsibility of business is profit maximization.
He wrote in his book, Capitalism and Freedom, this statement:
“The view has been gaining widespread acceptance that corporate officials……have a social responsibility that goes beyond serving the interests of their stockholders….This view shows a fundamental misconception of the character and nature of a free economy, there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use… Continue reading







