Corporate Social Responsibility Development; The Rise of Socially Responsible Consumers and Stakeholders in the 21st Century

This paper gathers literature and provides keys aspects in the Corporate Social Responsibility emergence and development. Thus the paper provides a brief on the historic progression of CSR, then the identification of theoretical and CSR practice development in various areas with time. The paper also touches on other issues which includes the shape of CSR in the 21st century, socially responsible consumers and stakeholders, CSR as a corporate culture and competitive strategy, CSR as not the ‘washing away of corporate sins', CSR in corporates operating in more than one country and perspectives to wha