The debate about the appropriate standards for upstream corporate social responsibility (CSR) of multinational corporations (MNCs) has been on the public and academic agenda for some three decades. The debate originally focused narrowly on "contract responsibility" of MNCs for monitoring of...

This article takes stock of the discourse on ‘political CSR' (PCSR), reconsiders some of its assumptions, and suggests new directions for what we call ‘PCSR 2.0'. We start with a definition of PCSR, focusing on firms' contribution to public goods. We then discuss historical antecedents to...