Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Approach

Abstract

This theoretical work outlines the fundamental environment of Corporate Social Responsibility and its impact on educational development from a comparative perspective. It examines how multinational corporations institute fundamental change in the balance between Heyneman's social pillars by initiating CSR programs. This work also encompasses three case studies correlated with different comparative educational perspectives to articulate in stark terms the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on education. Findings and Conclusions: Corporate Social Responsibility is a neoliberal effort to decouple the pillar of education from the embedded social contract. It seeks to hasten the privatization of the educational pillar for the benefit of western dominated economic consensus.