Ideas of Corporate Social Responsibility and National Intellectual Tradition

Abstract

The article is devoted to the philosophical and ethical components of corporate social responsibility in Japan. The author focuses on the national cultural patterns, cognitive paradigms and values that have an impact on the terminology and ways of conceptualizing CSR by Japanese businessmen. In particular, the author considers the Buddhist principles of “obtaining benefits for himself, bringing benefit to others”, “triple purity of giving” as well as the ideas of unity of debt and benefits, public and private interests, proclaimed by Japanese Confucians.