Business and Society cannot be separated, Just as society needs business, so buusiness depends on society for sucess. Therefore enterprise is in existence having an inseparably close relation with society in rapidly changing social surrounding of toda...
Business and Society cannot be separated, Just as society needs business, so buusiness depends on society for sucess. Therefore enterprise is in existence having an inseparably close relation with society in rapidly changing social surrounding of today.
For the past years, the development of capitalism a as changed various conditions of business enterprise. Modern enterprise has noticeable features : (1) Type of joint stock company, (2) Management is sepated from owncrship, (3) Plural of goals, (4) Extensiveness of influence, (5) Monopoly of market, and (6) concentration of capital. In this respect, Modern enterprise raises public nuisances, damage to the environment, fabrication of market prices, comouflage of accounts, shortage of goods,etc. Those matters were not at all anticipated in the 19th century. Such being the case, although enterprise has contributed great service to development of society, concern about social responsibility of enterprise is emphasized by social evil caused in activities of enterprise.
In general, We can divide social responsibility into two sides of positive and affirmative side which enterprise should fulfill the social responsibility and passive and negative side which enterprise is in no need of fulfilling the social responsibility. There has been a lot of afguement both theories. But finally speaking, enterprise and society should admire the public prosperity wiht mutual concession and sacrifice on the premise that both parties should practice an idea of coexistence and coprosperity. What's more, It's able to solue the problem when all business men improue their perception of the social responsibility.