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I'm here as a representative of CSR.
The Children's Fund is part of our CSR strategy.
So many mom and pop shops being elbowed out by faceless evil conglomerates like CSR.
Meanwhile CSR's Superstore was becoming a reality and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
Wilson called for a plastics consult for your CSR, which I obviously can't do with you standing here, unless you want to violate the terms of your own restraining order.
A CSR with grenade launcher.
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Total shareholder return (TSR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) often seem completely divorced from each other.
The thinking, mostly implicit, is that maximizing TSR by polluting the environment is acceptable as long as some compensating contributions are made to CSR initiatives - the corporate equivalent of bathing in the Ganges to wash away one's sins.
But are CSR obligations really good practice?
Instead of CSR, we should have PSR (personal social responsibility).
But there are strong arguments in favor of CSR as well.
Finally, CSR can be simply a matter of advertising.
All these rationales for CSR suggest that it should be left to each corporation to determine, just as PSR leaves altruism to each individual's conscience and sense of what needs supporting.
The attempt by some NGOs and activists to impose a straitjacket on CSR, reflecting their priorities, is misguided and must be rejected.
There is also an added advantage in replacing CSR with PSR: there is virtue in diversity of approaches to altruism.
Each will consider his or her CSR view the best.
The more CSR a company can point to, the less such efforts will succeed - or even be mounted.
In this case, the choice of CSR spending is focused directly on generating added revenue, much like advertising, and is aimed at sales much the way advertising is.
But the fact that CSR is being demanded, and occasionally conceded, does not ensure clarity about either its rationale or the ways in which it should be undertaken.