ABSTRACT
Let’s call it a social movement. The “it” is the emerging corporate responsibility infrastructure, still relatively new and made up of evolving institutions working towards change from within the current economic system. The change these institutions are leveraging is holding companies, particularly large multinational companies, to bemore accountable and responsible for their actions, impacts, anddecisions. This corporate responsibility infrastructure has developed as part of amuch wider movement for change being demanded from outside the system to counterbalance the growing global influence of corporations since globalization took root in the late 1970s. It is the inside-the-system counterpart to the antiglobalization activismbynon-governmental organizations (NGOs) andothers demanding greater accountability, responsibility, and transparency from corporations.1
