What’s wrong with Corporate Social Responsibility?
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About the video: ‘What’s wrong with Corporate Social Responsibility?’
The late Dame Anita Roddick looks at the origins of social responsibility in business and questions the integrity of what is now commonly known as Corporate Social Responsibility. Since leading management consultants helped take the movement mainstream, the core values that shape ethical business practices have become compromised in her view. She touches on the power that big business wields over government and closes by suggesting that governments and businesses have become far too obsessed with profit and economic growth.
Total views: 8,634
Filmed: Oxford, UK on 15 September 2006
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell, Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV
About Dame Anita Roddick
The late Dame Anita Roddick DBE founded The Body Shop and was one of Britain’s most successful global retailers. A pioneer of socially responsible business, she was a tireless campaigner for human rights and trade justice. She won numerous business, leadership and philanthropic awards and was named Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2003. She wrote and contributed to many books, including “Globalization: Take it Personally” (2001) and “Business as Unusual” (2005).
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