| Sumario: | The writers expose the conceptual limitations of corporate social responsibility (CSR), which refers to any activity that promotes the well-being of any stakeholder of a business corporation. They assert that the CSR doctrine leads to too narrow a focus on certain stakeholders and businesses at the expense of others who are key components of the system. They point out that ethics and social responsibility depend on the participation and support not just of some businesses or industries but of all the other institutions, which need to examine their own complicity and negligence with regard to the perpetuation of industries that manufacture ethically problematic products. They highlight the fact that persons, rather than abstract institutions, are ultimately the ethical or unethical actors.
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