Hielscher, Stefan; Husted, Bryan W. - In: Journal of business ethics : JBE 166 (2020) 2, pp. 253-269
In this paper, we argue that antecedents of modern corporate social responsibility (CSR) prior to the Industrial Revolution can be referred to as “proto-CSR” to describe a practice that influenced modern CSR, but which is different from its modern counterparts in form and structure. We...