Corporate social responsibility in China’s largest transnational corporations

Introduction Since the CCP’s espousal of the ‘Go Global’ policy at the Sixteenth Party Congress in 2002, Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has increased rapidly from only several billion dollars to around US$50 billion in 2008 (MOFCOM 2009). This rapid international expansion of Chinese firms raises numerous questions. One multifaceted question concerns how China’s most internationalized firms conceive of, act upon, and report upon, their social responsibilities. It is this question that the present paper investigates.