To gain a deeper understanding of the CSR movement, it is critical to set aside our one-dimensional view of corporate beneficence to tease out a more sophisticated understanding of the complex relationship between corporations and their activities and the greater community.

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He likened the evolution of CSR to the quality movement in the 1980s, when every company responded by starting a quality department.

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