Answering the call for a new theoretical approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this paper makes a suggestion from a Weberian perspective. It briefly appraises the existing research on CSR and develops key points of a new approach based on their criticism. Suggesting that CSR is a...

In this research, we demonstrate that business sustainability can be a model to foster in order to reach real development, as it is shown that business sustainability has both an ethical and economic logic. Even though, from an ethical point of view, sustainability can be well-founded on human...

The encyclical Caritas in Veritate contains only two paragraphs that refer, almost in passing, to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Nevertheless, the encyclical is full of suggestions and ideas about how Benedict XVI sees CSR: as a natural ethical responsibility (but not just any ethic is...