{"id":1794,"date":"2007-07-12T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/12\/the-state-multinationals-and-social-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:41:46","slug":"the-state-multinationals-and-social-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/07\/12\/the-state-multinationals-and-social-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"The State, Multinationals and Social Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/State_Multinationals_SocialResponsibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070714_giulia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/070714_giulia.jpg\" title=\"070714_giulia.jpg\" alt=\"070714_giulia.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We all know that the world is far from being a perfect place. The widening gap between the rich and poor, exploitation and violation of human rights on the workplace and beyond, unfair trade and global warming are only a few of the topics relevant today. With the rising influence multinationals have on today\u2019s societies, \u201cCorporate Social Responsibility\u201d is a fairly new concept that is gaining more and more importance. Should, however, companies really be responsible for social equity? Should not the state be the main actor in such issues? Should states impose certain laws regarding <\/span><st1:stockticker><span lang=\"EN-GB\">CSR<\/span><\/st1:stockticker><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> on multinationals? In the following, I will discuss these questions using different authors\u2019, and finally my own, opinion. Image source: dusteye.files.wordpress.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/State_Multinationals_SocialResponsibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\">Publication: Covalence Analyst Paper <span class=\"linkbluetransmedium\">| Country: Global |<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"><span class=\"linkbluetransmedium\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/docs\/State_Multinationals_SocialResponsibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Covalence<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that the world is far from being a perfect place. The widening gap between the rich and poor, exploitation and violation of human rights on the workplace and beyond, unfair trade and global warming are only a few of the topics relevant today. With the rising influence multinationals have on today\u2019s societies,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}