When Corporations Cause Harm: A Critical View of Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Corporate Crimes

摘要: Corporations perform actions that can inflict harm with different levels of intensity, from death to material loss, both companies’ internal and external stakeholders. Research has analysed corporate using the notions social irresponsibility (CSIR) crime. Critical management studies (CMS) have been subjecting organizational practices knowledge critical analysis, one main concerns CMS. However, CMS rarely deployed analyse CSIR Thus, aim this paper is critically perspectives crimes on via in general postcolonial particular. The contributes by arguing research crime could be perceived as producing does not challenge essence contemporary corporation profit-seeking activities ultimately produces harm. We argue are ideologies assist disguising contradiction between shareholder value good at heart modern system current economic system. Furthermore, view highlights how they based a Western-centric ignores realities Global South, especially situations where leads South.