Comments on: Where corporate social responsibility ends and consumer responsibility begins http://scarcityrent.com/2007/07/11/where-corporate-social-responsibility-ends-and-consumer-responsibility-begins/ Digressive thoughts from an engineer & economist going for an MBA ;) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:15:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David http://scarcityrent.com/2007/07/11/where-corporate-social-responsibility-ends-and-consumer-responsibility-begins/#comment-880 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:11:48 +0000 http://scarcityrent.com/2007/07/11/where-corporate-social-responsibility-ends-and-consumer-responsibility-begins/#comment-880 Thank you for reminding me that my blog needed ASAP an update ;)

]]> By: gabrielbcn http://scarcityrent.com/2007/07/11/where-corporate-social-responsibility-ends-and-consumer-responsibility-begins/#comment-879 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:05:57 +0000 http://scarcityrent.com/2007/07/11/where-corporate-social-responsibility-ends-and-consumer-responsibility-begins/#comment-879 You’re right. That might be a way too. Trying to skip the quarterly results with a good excuse. If that was the case private equity beat the CSR on the long run without having to worry about quarterly results and without having to worry about CSR either.

Btw, when should we expect an Economing update?

Best regards and thanks for the post ;)

]]> By: David http://scarcityrent.com/2007/07/11/where-corporate-social-responsibility-ends-and-consumer-responsibility-begins/#comment-878 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:34:58 +0000 http://scarcityrent.com/2007/07/11/where-corporate-social-responsibility-ends-and-consumer-responsibility-begins/#comment-878 CSR, as you’ve already said, is a voguish topic that will be completely forgotten in a question of a few years. I think the emergence of CSR was the consequence of too many years of myopic management (i.e. only looking at the next quarter profits’). In some sense it was a way to say…. “Yeah, short-run profits matter, but values matter too if we want to survive in the long run”. When many people refer to CSR, they’re actually referring to “let’s ensure we will maximize profits in the long run by being consumer-friendly and society-friendly”.

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