Corporate social responsiveness is a business’s capacity to respond to social pressures. This suggests the ability of a business organization to survive through adaptation to its business environment. To do so, it must know as much as possible about this business environment, be capable of analyzing its data, and must react to the results of this analysis. But the environment of business is not static; it is a complex and ever changing set of circumstances. This environment can be unchanged for decades, if not centuries, and then it falls apart and is reformed like a kaleidoscope with increasing rapidity. The ability to successfully scan, interpret, and react to the business environment requires equally complex mechanisms. Three elements are identified as basic elements of this level of the CSR model:
- Business Environment Scanning: indicates the informational gathering arm of the business and the transmission of the gathered information throughout the organization.
- Stakeholder Management: A stakeholder is defined as any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the firm’s objectives. For example, owners, suppliers, employees, customers, competitors, governments; nonprofit organizations, environmental and consumer protection groups and others. Stakeholder Management refers to mapping the relationships of stakeholder to the firm (and among each other) whilst finding, listening and meeting their expectations and seeking to balance and meet legitimate concerns as a prerequisite of any measurement process.
- Having identified the motivating principles of a firm and having determined the identities, relationships, and power of stakeholders, attempt then is to turn to the main issues which concern stakeholders.
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