Myths About CSR in Developing Countries By Wayne Visser

As you can see I still did not get enough about Visser thoughts J

In his 14^th December 2011 post in The Age of Responsibility Visser asks everyone “are concepts and models of corporate social responsibility developed in the West appropriate for developing countries?”, by explains further “I decided to first tackle this question by setting out what I believe to be Seven Popular Myths about CSR in developing countries”.

To continue he writes “most of these myths exist as a result of the feeding frenzy that inevitably occurs every time the media has hunted down and sunk its teeth into one or other juicy story of corporate exploitation” and says “they, however, become sustainable because they are spread by whole legions of largely well-intentioned people who have vested interests in promoting their particular brand of the truth about CSR”.

So here I would like to refer to the Seven Myths indicated by Wayne Visser in The Age of Responsibility blog.

·         Economic growth is not compatible with CSR

·         Multinationals are the biggest CSR sinners

·         Multinationals are the biggest CSR saviours

·         Developing countries are anti-multinational

·         Developed countries lead on CSR

·         Codes can ensure CSR in developing countries

·         CSR is the same the world over

·         Let’s look at these myths each briefly in turn

For the reasons of not copy pasting the full publication I ask you for the explanations to follow the link to the original post, http://ageofresponsibility.blogspot.com/, where you can also find many other interesting posts.

Posted by Maie Peetri