著者

大塚 善樹

出版者

筑波大学

雑誌

年報筑波社会学 (ISSN:09163336)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, pp.1-20, 1998

著者

大塚 善樹

出版者

お茶の水社会学研究会

雑誌

Sociology today (ISSN:13441620)

巻号頁・発行日

no.9, pp.43-58, 1998

著者

大塚 善樹

出版者

科学技術社会論学会

雑誌

科学技術社会論研究 (ISSN:13475843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.121-132, 2008-06-30 (Released:2021-08-01)

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This paper attempts to evaluate ecological communications of the CSR by examining arguments over an article in The Economist journal that criticized the CSR as delusional and pernicious. On one hand, the delusional CSR, which was indicted for uncertain knowledge about environment, may pose a semantic problem for meaningful communication. On the other hand, the pernicious CSR, which was accused for leaving public values on the market for which no objective criteria are existed, may associate with a pragmatic problem in effective communication. Given that environmental science entails uncertainty, and also given imperfect information in the real market, trust in science and the market would be important for advancing the CSR. A questionnaire survey for staffs of CSR departments in 55 companies about the attitudes against the criticism, in fact, indicated that trust in science and the market may independently affect the degrees of considering social evaluation of their firms as important. In addition, such attitudes may depend on the position of a firm in the 'market for virtue', i. e. the market in which ecological and societal values are transacted, because firms at the intermediate position in the course of the CSR progress, from a rather narrow responsibility only for an environmental aspect to a wider responsibility for society, tended to have weaker trust in both science and the market.

著者

大塚 善樹

出版者

関東社会学会

雑誌

年報社会学論集 (ISSN:09194363)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1997, no.10, pp.97-108, 1997-06-05 (Released:2010-04-21)

参考文献数

30

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A conception of ‘technological order’ is proposed to understand the interactions between informational technology and ‘network’ like industrial organizations, which would lead to the accumulation of technology and capital in the ‘informational capitalism. ’ This new form of capitalism has been characterized by Manuel Castells as “the production of knowledge by knowledge. ” By means of the investigation of the recent literatures on the economics of innovation and industrial organization, in addition to empirical research concerning the technological development and socio-economic changes in biotechnology, it is postulated that ‘configurational’ ontogeny of the technology and the tight protection of intellectural property have played an important role in affording the inter-firm collaborations in R & D, hence creating a ‘technological order’ in which technical knowledge is exchanged, combined, and accumulated.