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Overview Over the Historical Development

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Corporate Social Responsibility as an International Strategy

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To start with the very beginning, today’s corporations have their origins in century-old institutions which were founded for colonial purposes and put in charge for the management and execution of public projects — the foundation and existence of those early corporations remained a privilege granted by the state at first, and therefore, staid within its discretionary power alone. One might say, at this point, corporations were highly “socially responsible”, as they were acting on behalf of public interests exclusively (although this was not a choice they had made).1

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(2008). Overview Over the Historical Development. In: Corporate Social Responsibility as an International Strategy. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2024-9_2

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