CSR public policies in India's democracy

What is it about?

This paper looks at how CSR impacts state-business interplays in India by introducing new horizons of political intervention in the regulation of corporate conduct. By comparing the making and institutional characteristics of the National Voluntary Guidelines of 2011 and the CSR section of the Companies Act 2013, the analysis shows how both "voluntary" and "mandatory" CSR public policies tend to weaken the state by transferring regulatory and redistributive functions to profit-driven business organizations.

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