What do you think of corporate responsibility drives?

[Lark]

What do you think of corporate responsibility drives? Do they reflect the fact that something other than mere market forces are required to regulate the behaviour of corporations with respect to consumers, competitors, employees, contractors or others? Do they reflect the fact that markets are embedded institutions and the foundation they are embedded in, ie norms, culture, expectations, morals, is no longer functional or was never up to the regulatory task?

Are they a good thing, a tokenistic gesture of a broken system or merely a means of co-opting actual or potential resistance or skeptics?

 

[LovecraftianMonstrosity]

I think about 1/5 companies is pretty good overall trying to have a positive environmental and social impact while still trying to be profitable. Unfortunately, there are others at the opposite side of the spectrum who exploit this as a weakness in the business model and try to predate on such companies. So while socially responsible corporate campaigns can take off they tend to only last as long as the tenure of those managers that implement them, usually 5 to 30 years, but they do matter.

 

[EcK]

I think it's nice that companies have hobbies too. like the regular folks.