T. De George, Richard2019-09-252019-09-252012-12-202012http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/188605An analysis of responsibility involves determining for what one is responsible, to whom one is responsible, what such responsibility consists of (e.g., accountability, liability), and the role responsibility serves (e. g., with respect to reward and punishment). Moral responsibility and legal responsibility follow a basic similar pattern both semantically and pragmatically. Corporate Social Responsibility does not. This accounts for much of the confusion in the understanding of CSR, both by it defenders and by its critics. In CSR the function of responsibility is primarily prudential, the end being the advancement in some way of the corporation. The paper develops the implications of the different notions of responsibility for practice and research.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderResponsibilityCSRmoral responsibilitylegal responsibilitybusiness ethicsUN Global ContractGlobal ethicsEconomic ethicsCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsConference proceedings