Corporate Social Responsibility in Finland: From Local Movements to Global Responsibility

Abstract

The focus of the responsibility debate in Finland has varied in time covering the three dimensions of corporate responsibility, namely economic, environmental and social responsibility. The social movement by the industrial and agrarian labor claiming for more reasonable working conditions started the series of movements in the early twentieth century. The environmental dimension dominated the debate at the time of the rise of public environmental awareness from the 1960s until the 1990s. The intensive globalization turned the focus on the global social and environmental responsibility in the late 1990s and onwards.