The Origin of Corporate Social Responsibility and Basis of Allocation——The Perspective of Corporate Resource Dependence

摘要

The social responsibility is increasingly becoming a realistic constraint in the corporate operating and academe focus. Discussions about social responsibility mainly are around three fundamental questions: the subject of social responsibilities, the object of social responsibilities and the content of social responsibilities. There are some disagreements in these discussions, the disagreement stems from there is not consistent recognition about the origin where the corporate social responsibility emerge from. The corporate social responsibility comes from dependence of resources, including the dependence on resources themselves and the resources dependent relationship. Corporate resource dependence is the basis that the resource providers obtain profits allocation, the enterprise allocates social responsibility. The allocation dependents on the contribution degree, adhesivity and scarcity of the resources. Generally, the bigger the contribution degree, adhe-sivity and scarcity of the resources are to the enterprise, the more the enterprise should take on the social responsibilities.