lecture 3 (corporate citizenship approach and beyond)

Question 1

Corporate citizenship approach

Answer 1

a company has a moral responsibility to protect rights that they can protect, but governments fail to protect

Question 2

Corporate citizenship approach aim

Answer 2

To protect social, politiccal and civil rights that governments fail to protect

Gives the firm a political role

Question 3

Reasons for CC

Answer 3

privitization of social needs (electricity, eduction, health care) and common resoureces (provision of clean water)

Governments are unable (less dev. countries) or unwilling to address social needs and secure social rights

Governments have limited power on global problems (climate change, internet privacy)

Question 4

Different rights

Answer 4

social rights: safety, access to education, healthcare

Civil rights: free speech, gender equality, etc.

Political rights: Political participation (right to vote, etc.)

A company that is a good corporate citizen sometimes aids governments, sometimes works against them (problematic regeime) or steps in when governments dont act

Question 5

Two complementary definitions of CSR

Answer 5

1) csr as a shared responsibility of companies towards human development in the long term and

2) As a direct liability model towards each human being directly impacted by a given companys activity

Question 6

Capability approach

Answer 6

according to sen, what really matters is not the income, but how people manage to turn income into freedom. The real indicator of equality should be freedom

Real(effective) freedom to pursure well-being

Question 7

Capability approach martha nussbaum (ten capabilities)

Answer 7

Life

Bodily health

Bodily integrity

Practical reason

senses, affiliation, other specifics, play, controll over ones…

Question 8

Key concept capability approach

Answer 8

capabilities: doings and beings people can choose (feeding oneself, getting a career, enjoying free time

functionings: capabilities that have been realised
(having a job that allows free time that is protected by the government

Threshold: minimum requirements that have to be met by governments

The weekly paper shows how we can answer the questions of CSR with the capability approach as a framework