De Bakker 2005

A Bibliometric Analysis of 30 Years of Research and Theory on Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Social Performance

A long kindof content analysis of CSR / CSP up until now. Quite dense, but looks at the evoltion of the concept in good detail and identifies 3 main ways to approach the history: progressive, variegation, and normative. The distinctions are not overly clear.

Pg 308 the authors point to the CSP-FP literature and put it in the descriptive category, becasue they do not offer any theoretical contribution. "These papers appear to be stuck in repetitive mode as they do not so much build on each others work but mainly repeat or critique it without providing underlying causal relationships. They go back to the reasons Rowley and Berman gave for the approach - justify the studies themselves, add to moral arguements as to why firmsshould attend to their social responsibilities.

not sure ho wmuch this adds, other than backing up Rowley and Berman on CSP FP