Baumberg Geiger, Ben (2014) Corporate Social Responsibility. Technical report. Addiction and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe : Reframing Addictions Project (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:55684)
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Abstract
This report looks at Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across the tobacco, alcohol, and
illicit drugs – which we refer to as the ‘addictive industries’. We also look at CSR in the high fat,
because its CSR discourses and practices share many features with the addictive industry.
societal welfare, beyond any benefits of economic activity per se,” and looks at three
place; and the impacts they have on health and addiction-related harms. The analysis is based
recorded speeches by CSR professionals; 31 documentary reports from published corporate CSR
final CSR reports from the EU Alcohol & Health Forum; and 72 interviews with drug dealers in
The report’s headline findings are that (i) the most common stated motivation for CSR activities
although some industries also reported consumer desires for healthier products; but (ii) there
social benefits. This requires us to directly examine the nature and impacts of CSR. We find (iii)
responsible consumer’. However, (iv) many CSR activities are not evaluated; those evaluations
relatively convincing evaluations show negative impacts.
do’, partly because it was seen as right to respond to societal pressure, even if it was not felt
on health/addiction-related harm, (vi) CSR activities were also claimed to be ‘the right thing to
this) – but the views about what is likely to work among CSR professionals seem to be at odds
a recommendation for policymakers based on the evidence within this report, and by linking to
the indirect impacts of CSR activities being studied in ALICE RAP Work Package 12.
Item Type: | Monograph (Technical report) |
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Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Depositing User: | Lisa Towers |
Date Deposited: | 24 May 2016 12:48 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 13:35 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/55684 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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