Corporate social responsibility á la the liberal communist

Cederström, Carl Fredrik Rudolf and Marinetto, Michael John Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6736-8609 2013. Corporate social responsibility á la the liberal communist. Organization 20 (3) , pp. 416-432. 10.1177/1350508413478311

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Abstract

This article explores the ‘liberal communist’, a conceptual and satirical figure originally elaborated in the work of Slavoj Žižek (2008). The liberal communist claims (1) that there is no opposition between capitalism and the social good; (2) that all problems are of a practical nature, and hence best solved by corporate engagement and (3) that hierarchies, authority and centralized bureaucracies should be replaced by dynamic structures, a nomadic lifestyle and a flexible spirit. This analysis of the liberal communist has at least two implications for research on CSR. First, it examines the ideological role of CSR by moving beyond a propaganda view, instead offering an ideological reading that focuses on the ways in which CSR seeks to obliterate any existing contradictions between ‘philanthropic actions’ on the one hand and ‘profit-seeking business activities’ on the other hand. Second, it demonstrates how critique is not necessarily what corporations seek to avoid, but something that they actively engage in.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
Uncontrolled Keywords:	business ethics; capitalism; corporate social responsibility; ethics; liberal communist; neo-liberalism; Zizek
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	1350-5084
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 09:52
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/42399

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