GLOBALIZATION OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY PRACTICES

There are several trends that acquired a global pattern being more or less related to the main drivers of economic globalization. Corporate responsibility, as the reflection of sustainable development values at microeconomic level, become widespread among large companies. In this paper I explore the possibility to consider such practices as an expression of globalization and also the possible contribution of globalization drivers to the increased use of such practices. The argument is constructed on the findings of the intensive corporate responsibility research deployed in the last decades and data about the largest multinational enterprises. The findings suggest that although social and environmental concerns are considered more thoroughly by managers from developed countries, multinational companies could act as vectors of corporate practices worldwide and setting this behavior as a global feature.