国际法下的公司社会责任.pdf

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF A CORPORATION UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW: A CRITICAL STUDY PART I. [A.] INTRODUCTION International law today addresses the conduct of private corporations in a variety of areas. With very few exceptions, however, international law regulates corporate conduct indirectly--that is, by requiring states to enact and enforce 1 regulations applicable to corporations and other non-state actors. The 2001 European Commission Green Paper on Corporate S ocial Responsibility [hereinafter CSR] defines this responsibility as “a concept whereby companies decide voluntarily to contribute to a better society and a cleaner 2 environment.” Three generations of CSR are generally t ho ught to have evolved. The first focused on short-term corporate interests and motives, the second on long-term success strategies; the present third generation is aimed at addressing the role of business in matters essentially within the public domain, such as poverty, exclusion, and environmental degradation.3 CSR has come to the forefront of corporate and economic concerns because of the increasingly globalized nature of business and the so-called New Economy, a knowledge-based, technology-driven environment that has, among other things, affected an increase in stakeholders access to inform