Despite numerous efforts to bring about a clear and unbiased definition of CSR, there is still some confusion as to how sustainable corporate social responsibility should be defined. In this paper five dimensions of sustainable corporate social responsibility are developed through a content analysis of existing corporate social responsibility definitions. Frequency counts are used to analyze how often these dimensions are invoked. The analysis shows that the existing definitions are to a large degree congruent. This paper presents an overview of the results of a longitudinal analysis of the coverage of sustainability-corporate social responsibility related concepts worldwide between 2000–2011 covering 557 articles. From these articles it reveals that how corporate social responsibility is defined by based on the dimensions. And 50 definitions were analyzed based on the five dimensions. Thus it is concluded that the confusion is not so much about how sustainable corporate social responsibility is defined, as about how CSR is socially constructed in a specific context.
Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability
