The Charitable Responsibilities Model Abstract:

In order to mitigate the uncertainty that arises from the five paradoxes of corporate strategic philanthropy, we must re including its basic underlying assumptions. This paper sets forth a new model of corporate social responsibility: the charitable responsibilities model. By embracing the new model set forth paper, businesses can avoid the common pitfalls of corporate strategic philanthropy, increase profit, and build consumer trust. responsibility pyramid as set forth in Archie Carroll’s classic ar Social Responsibility: Toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders”. Through analysis of recent empirical studies regarding corporate philanthropy, this essay identifies five paradoxes of corporate philanthro misinterpreting the purpose of the corporate social responsibility pyramid. The empirical studies are then used to make a normative argument supporting the proposition that the negative results of these five paradoxes can be mitigated by the adoption of a new pyramid of corporate social responsibility: the charitable responsibilities model. By building on the work of Professor Carroll, this essay proposes an alternative theoretical model akin to the model set fort