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Consumers’ Impact on the Development of Corporate Social Responsibility

Author(s): Ewa Mazur-Wierzbicka
Subject(s): Environmental interactions, Business Ethics
Published by: Instytut Badań Rynku, Konsumpcji i Koniunktur
Keywords: consumers; stakeholders; responsible consumption; corporate social responsibility;

Summary/Abstract: The concept of corporate social responsibility in the contemporary world becomes more and more popular. Its fundamental element is the theory of stakeholders. Among the enterprise’s stakeholders, the key role is played by consumers. Having this in mind, the author took as the aim of her considerations presentation of the impact of consumers’ attitudes, behaviours and choices on the development of corporate social responsibility and on the growth of importance of social responsibility in their environment. In her article, the author put the thesis that consumers are the key group of enterprises’ stakeholders who through aware, responsible consumption substantially affects their functioning, inter alia, stimulating them to undertake actions compliant with the concept of corporate social responsibility. In her study, she used the subject literature as well as secondary data from the carried out research in the area of the problems in question.

  • Issue Year: 357/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 296-306
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish