ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is sweet aspirational talk for cosmopolitan business ethics. It considers the movement for CSR as closely related to ethics and values-driven leadership. When it comes to getting the company to do something more in relation to its regular field of different forms of responsibilities, that is what it is economically and legally required of the company according to business and law. Theories and principles of business ethics form the basis for the formulation of the concept of corporate responsibility, the responsibility of business CSR and its social and environmental responsibility, topics that the term of social responsibility usually covers. The definition of the concept of the responsibility of business is in itself a difficult discussion. On the basis of the different approaches to CSR it is possible to distinguish four different concepts: instrumental approaches, political approaches, integrative approaches, and ethical approaches.
