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: Received: 23 September 2023 / Approved: 25 September 2023 / Online: 25 September 2023 (11:26:47 CEST)
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Osuji, O.K.; Edeji, O.C. Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in Company Law – Reframing Human Security through Education. Preprints2023, 2023091678. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1678.v1
Osuji, O.K.; Edeji, O.C. Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in Company Law – Reframing Human Security through Education. Preprints 2023, 2023091678. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1678.v1
Osuji, O.K.; Edeji, O.C. Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in Company Law – Reframing Human Security through Education. Preprints2023, 2023091678. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1678.v1
APA Style
Osuji, O.K., & Edeji, O.C. (2023). Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in Company Law – Reframing Human Security through Education. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1678.v1
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Osuji, O.K. and Obinna Christian Edeji. 2023 "Orchestration of Corporate Social Responsibility in Company Law – Reframing Human Security through Education" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1678.v1
Abstract
This paper aims to argue the fundamental significance of education in addressing notable gaps in the constitutive, performance, and evaluation criteria for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and endeavours to showcase the complementarity between education, human security, sustainable human development, and the pursuit of CSR as an ideal normative paradigm. An abstractive approach to studying CSR engages with corporate philanthropy, which has not been helpful outside traditional CSR paradigms without looking at key dynamics that can robustly underpin successful CSR. It relies on the systematic analysis of written data sources to theoretically explore the central significance, and complementarity between human security, education, and human dignity and how they can orchestrate a holistic CSR paradigm. In 1994, the UNDP in formulating the human security doctrine recognised the syncretic correlation between human security, education, and sustainable human development as fundamental elements that should underpin CSR. This paper contends that these are necessary intrinsic components of human dignity as the central factor that justifies a multi-dimensional and proactive approach to CSR.
Despite the criticisms against human security, this paper identifies it as an important concept that could instrumentally orchestrate a model of CSR that uniformly mainstreams sustainable human development and human dignity that leverages education which has routinely and traditionally been seen as a constitutive component of CSR. It reveals how a holistic path to CSR can reinvigorate the central pillars of human security and human dignity using education as a springboard and makes a compelling case for supporting explicit references to education in company law with appropriate human security informed constitutive, performance, and evaluation criteria which are absent in existing legally orchestrated CSR.
Keywords
company law; development studies; sociology; corporate social responsibility; education; human development; human dignity
Subject
Social Sciences, Law
Copyright:
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