The Icelandic Banking Crisis: A Reason to Rethink CSR?
In the fall of 2008, the three largest banks in Iceland collapsed, with severe and lasting consequences for the Icelandic economy. This article discusses the ‘Icelandic banking crisis’ in relation to the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It explores some conceptual arguments for the p...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:111:y:2012:i:2:p:147-156 2024-04-14T08:13:40+00:00 The Icelandic Banking Crisis: A Reason to Rethink CSR? David Sigurthorsson http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10551-012-1207-8 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10551-012-1207-8 article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:34:15Z In the fall of 2008, the three largest banks in Iceland collapsed, with severe and lasting consequences for the Icelandic economy. This article discusses the ‘Icelandic banking crisis’ in relation to the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It explores some conceptual arguments for the position that the Icelandic banking crisis illustrates the broad problem of the indeterminacy of the scope and content of the duties that CSR is supposed to address. In particular, it is suggested that the way the banks in question conceived of CSR, i.e. largely in terms of strategic philanthropy, was gravely inadequate. It concludes by proposing that the case of the Icelandic banking crisis gives us a reason to rethink CSR. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 CSR, Strategic philanthropy, Icelandic banking crisis, Public policy, PR Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
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In the fall of 2008, the three largest banks in Iceland collapsed, with severe and lasting consequences for the Icelandic economy. This article discusses the ‘Icelandic banking crisis’ in relation to the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR). It explores some conceptual arguments for the position that the Icelandic banking crisis illustrates the broad problem of the indeterminacy of the scope and content of the duties that CSR is supposed to address. In particular, it is suggested that the way the banks in question conceived of CSR, i.e. largely in terms of strategic philanthropy, was gravely inadequate. It concludes by proposing that the case of the Icelandic banking crisis gives us a reason to rethink CSR. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 CSR, Strategic philanthropy, Icelandic banking crisis, Public policy, PR |
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The Icelandic Banking Crisis: A Reason to Rethink CSR? |
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The Icelandic Banking Crisis: A Reason to Rethink CSR? |
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The Icelandic Banking Crisis: A Reason to Rethink CSR? |
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