What Is Carrolls Pyramid?

Carroll's CSR pyramid is a framework that explains how and why organisations should take social responsibility. The pyramid was developed by Archie Carroll and highlights the four most important types of responsibility of organisations. These are: Economic responsibility. Legal responsibility.

What is the social responsibility pyramid?

The pyramid is a simple framework which helps organizations argue how and why they could and should meet their social responsibilities. It attempts to balance the self-interests of businesses (profit) with its wider, more virtuous goal of being socially responsible.

What is the main contribution of Carrolls model of CSR?

The four-part definitional framework for CSR

Carroll's four part definition of CSR was originally stated as follows: “Corporate social responsibility encompasses the economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary (philanthropic) expectations that society has of organizations at a given point in time” (Carroll 1979, 1991).