Moulding the nascent corporate social responsibility agenda in Singapore: Of pragmatism, soft regulation, and the economic imperative

• Main Author: TAN, Eugene K. B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Corporate social responsibility; Regulation; Government; Singapore; Drivers of CSR; Asian Studies; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Law and Society
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2383; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4341/viewcontent/MouldingCSR_Singapore_2013.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper seeks to examine the putative growth of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Singapore. A key impetus for the nascent CSR movement in twenty-first century Singapore is the economic imperative. As a trade-dependent industrializing economy, the economic development drive coupled with th...