Etica e responsabilità sociale nel governo dell'impresa

This essay aims at studying relationship between ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stakeholder management theory, especially as promises to deepen the concept of stakeholder engagement and involvement. Today is very important the theory of the firm, and deal with CSR and business ethics has become an obligation for all those who deal with companies. In the traditional view of the economy and society, the company has only an institutional task: make a profit. This task can be achieved through the use of a code of ethics within the company, which addresses the choices: social responsibility is seen as a model of corporate governance based on co-operation with stakeholders and equity. Today the company is accountable not only to stockholders, those who controlling owner, but also to a wide range of stakeholders, namely those that commonly have to do with the company, as customers, employees, shareholders and suppliers. On this basis born and increases the interest in corporate social responsibility, the topic that will be developed in this essay. We will analyze first the definition of corporate governance and the context in which this term was born, then we will move on social company, corporate social responsibility as an enlarged corporate model, and finally we will analyze the vision of corporate governance from the ethical point of view and the Social Doctrine of the Christian Church.