ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the implications of each stage and close with a brief look at prospective research issues. It illustrates how standards of appropriateness at the time were questioned. An initial faith in the benefits of industrialization was complemented by issues that were not purely economic issues. The book focuses the organizations be distinguished by specific characteristics and assigned to different categories: Activists, Business Initiatives and Multi-stakeholders. It describes how different kinds of actors began adopting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies of various kinds on a broad scale. The book discusses the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) Model Code, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and the Fair Labor Association, among other similar initiatives. It focuses on the agents of internalization, motives of conformity and the dominant social process, institutionalization.