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Why should the West have a monopoly on defining CSR?

CSR specialist Mary Longhurst asks whether Indian companies, which are mandated to spend 2% of their profits on CSR activities, should bow to western notions or responsible conduct or fuse them with a more traditional approach to philanthropy. Corporate social responsibility is now a mainstream concept, spanning industries from oil extraction to fashion and from …

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Open magazine: Bridge the Gap

Since Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) became an imperative for larger Indian businesses under the Indian Companies Act in 2013, corporates, academics and NGOs have taken an interest in the repercussions across the world. As the concept of CSR is not defined within the Act, only the social issues that must be attended to, the eternal …

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