Corporate responsibility or corporate power? CSR and the shaping of the definitions and solutions to our public problems
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this article, I will examine the notion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which is increasingly presented as the socially acceptable way to deal with ethical, social and environmental issues stemming from economic activities. Using a public problems framework of analysis, I will build upon empirical work in the field of bio-engineering in order to argue that, on the contrary, CSR is a contentious notion. I will demonstrate that this is because CSR increases corporations’ involvement in the shaping of the definitions and solutions to our public problems and is thus based on a distribution of power and responsibility which is seen as potentially securing the power of corporations rather than offsetting it. In addition, this distribution does not correspond to most social actors’ representation of how power and responsibility should be shared in our society.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.041 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it