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Traditionally, environmental protection has been considered to be ‘in the public interest’ and external to private life. Since the Brundtland Report was published in 1987 as a result of the work of the World Commission on Environment, business and management scholars have been grappling with the question of how and why corporations should incorporate environmental concerns into their own strategies. Today, many companies have accepted their responsibility to do no harm to the environment. In relation to corporate social responsibility (CSR), the business community uses frequently-used terms that are commonly considered to be related to corporate ethics. The goal of this paper is to present, to some extent, current practices and approaches to environmental aspects of corporate social responsibility in the case of some Hungarian organizations.
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Karácsony, P. (2019). The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Environmental Sustainability. In: Behnassi, M., Gupta, H., Pollmann, O. (eds) Human and Environmental Security in the Era of Global Risks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92828-9_19
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