Economics A-Level
Corporate social responsibility
What Corporate social responsibility means in Economics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Corporate social responsibility
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Reference: AQA
Adopting social or environmental objectives, such as reducing carbon emissions, which modern enterprises increasingly do.
Topics that use Corporate social responsibility
- The objectives of firms (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Bounded rationality
- Business objectives
- Corporate governance
- Firm performance and efficiency
- Marginal cost
- Marginal revenue
- Principal-agent problem
- Profit maximisation
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