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Una breve storia del fenomeno ideologico della responsabilità sociale d’impresa (RSI), uno sguardo al “volto buono” del capitalismo novecentesco e contemporaneo, a quel processo di formazione di idee e immagini di sé mediante cui l’impresa (con il contributo degli specialisti di scienze manageriali), attraverso il XX secolo e oltre, ha dialogato con la società, risposto alle sue richieste di giustificazione e infine preteso di consacrare se stessa.

Csr’s ethical-semantic dimension. A research about employees social expectations of business Standing out from usual discussions concerned with best practices of corporate social responsibility or fairness in a multi-stakeholder model, this paper is going to achieve another point of view. It is intended to explore the so-called Csr’s ethical-semantic dimension. This formulation denotes productions of sense that cover social expectations of business action. Here the subject to be inquired is employees as a stakeholder, i.e. holder of values, desires and demands on corporate life. So, what I try to understand about it is the possible correlation between occupational classes and different schemes of expectations; moreover, the possible circulation of a common sense on Csr among different occupational classes.

Gli interventi presentati in due seminari dedicati a Etica e impresa. L’attenzione degli studiosi intervenuti s’incentra per lo più su un aspetto centrale sebbene specifico rispetto al panorama generale: le conseguenze dell’estensione, realizzata attraverso le imprese, dell’economia industriale capitalista all’intero pianeta e le reazioni poste in essere da soggetti della società civile che in un modo o nell’altro ne sono stati coinvolti.

The origins of the corporate social responsibility Where did the so called doctrine of social responsibility of business arise from? What social demands did that doctrine has to face up to? Finally, under which figures had it been appearing during the first two decades of its spread? The present article deals with these questions and is intended to suggest some answers focused on the following issues: a) the social and political pressures on business throughout the Depression age; b) the search for a new social legitimation of the firm by free enterprise system as an ideological frame, and by the concept of businessman as an economic, civil, and human development leader; c) the aim to justify separation between control and property in the modern corporation behind a professional ethics adopted by the executives and the new obligations they declare the society to assume

Ethics and Economics: conceptual Backgrounds of Division and Unity ABSTRACT: Considering the recent financial capitalism development and the ethical ‘collapse’ in this specific sphere of economic action as the new figure of classical contest between ethics and economics, this paper is intended to be a record of the sources both of ethics and economics division and unity in the contemporary conceptual horizons. In particular, the aim is to show how difficult is for our dominant views in ethics, coming out from a long way of antithesis against the instrumental rational pattern of economic action, to focus attention on the real unitarian model the aristotelean one that embeds economics inside ethics. By this, also Amartya Sen proposal of an aristotelean connection between ethics and economics is analysed and criticized because of his subterranean link with the divisionistic contemporary positions.