The DAO of CSR: Towards a holistic Chinese theory of corporate social responsibility

Hawes, C; Young, A

The DAO of CSR: Towards a holistic Chinese theory of corporate social responsibility

Hawes, C

Young, A

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: European Journal of East Asian Studies, 2019, 18 (2), pp. 165 - 204
Issue Date:: 2019-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Hawes, C https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3796-8421	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Young, A	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-12-12T18:07:18Z
dc.date.issued	2019-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	European Journal of East Asian Studies, 2019, 18 (2), pp. 165 - 204	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1568-0584	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/138835
dc.description.abstract	© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2019 Widespread corporate scandals involving corruption, environmental pollution, IP theft and food/product safety demonstrate that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not yet taken root among Chinese business firms. One major reason is that Chinese managers view CSR as a foreign concept, an externally imposed set of rules, that fails to resonate with their internal worldview. This paper proposes a new approach to CSR based on 'vital energy' (qi) circulating within an organically integrated moral cosmos (dao)-a traditional Chinese ecological worldview that overcomes cultural barriers to acceptance, while simultaneously drawing on insights from contemporary behavioural economics and materials science. The paper provides Chinese conceptual tools to transform an externally imposed burden on business firms into an internally generated, ecologically situated, creative and productive corporate evolution.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	European Journal of East Asian Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1163/15700615-01802003	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	The DAO of CSR: Towards a holistic Chinese theory of corporate social responsibility	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	18	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
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Abstract:

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2019 Widespread corporate scandals involving corruption, environmental pollution, IP theft and food/product safety demonstrate that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not yet taken root among Chinese business firms. One major reason is that Chinese managers view CSR as a foreign concept, an externally imposed set of rules, that fails to resonate with their internal worldview. This paper proposes a new approach to CSR based on 'vital energy' (qi) circulating within an organically integrated moral cosmos (dao)-a traditional Chinese ecological worldview that overcomes cultural barriers to acceptance, while simultaneously drawing on insights from contemporary behavioural economics and materials science. The paper provides Chinese conceptual tools to transform an externally imposed burden on business firms into an internally generated, ecologically situated, creative and productive corporate evolution.

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