Corporate Social Responsibility: A Brief Review of Contemporary Literature

• In Event: Ethics, Mentoring, and Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract

During the last two decades, not only has the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) drawn attention from the business press, but also a body of diversified academic literature is emerging around it. This study reviews and synthesizes the major domains and findings of the research on CSR area. The objective of this review is to offer a precise understanding of what already have been investigated and the findings of those investigations in academic world. This review evaluates the extant theories, identifies the gaps in the literature and gives some direction to explore the promising avenues for future studies. This study finds predominance of inconsistent findings and lack of sound theoretical grounds in major CSR related areas. Therefore, there is ample room for future researchers to contribute the literature by investigating the real insights as well as by developing new theories and implicit understandings in this emerging area.

Author

• Mahfuja Malik, Boston University