Simon Propper on BP, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the limits of CSR-lite

The corporate responsibility and sustainability community has been pretty quiet about the terrible incident continuing in the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody wants to rush to judge a situation that is complex and highly specific to the oil exploration sector.

This is patently sensible. But the ongoing disaster should make everyone involved in the corporate responsibility field reflect on the effectiveness of CR as currently practised.

Many commentators attributed the global credit crunch and subsquent banking collapse to a failure of corporate responsibility. And indeed a number of institutions obviously did behave irresponsibly.

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