SA8000 social responsibility organization is the pusher of society and its internal motive force

1., the existence of civil society organizations is the promoter of corporate social responsibility

Civil society is a civil society organization aiming at serving citizens, conducting public welfare activities and developing public welfare. The basic characteristics of civil society organizations are organization, independence, non profit, autonomy and voluntariness. Since 1980s, civil society organizations have been playing a more and more important role in solving many social and economic problems, such as economic problems, ethical issues, environmental problems, social conflicts and so on.

In the twentieth Century 50-70, the corporate social responsibility in western countries had not been paid due attention. At that time, many enterprises including some well-known large enterprises to pursue profit as the goal, ignoring the interests of other stakeholders and all kinds of moral values, and government regulation of business laws and regulations are not perfect, the government departments of various bad performance in response to enterprises negative or deregulation. The face of the market and the government in the economic and ethical aspects of double failure, the western civil society to Lehan health and an important force of promoting economic ethics.

Since 1960s, the civil society in the West has developed rapidly. Today, the civil society has developed into third different powers from the state power and the market power. As an independent power, non governmental, non-profit, exists between public and private interests, and become a kind of participation and the balance of power, to a certain extent, prevent the moral damage part to another part of the. They have begun to have a greater impact on global governance.

Now, many insurance companies regularly disclose CSR information every year, the most fundamental reason is that stakeholders are increasingly concerned about this. Typical stakeholders include community groups, employees, shareholders, government departments and regulators, non-governmental organizations (related to social or environmental issues), unions, customers, consumers, business partners, and so on. Corporate social responsibility is not only the decision-making of senior management, but also the result of joint cooperation. Thus, it can be said that the western civil society organizations play a very important role in promoting corporate social responsibility.

2., the profound understanding of the connotation of corporate social responsibility is its internal power

With the advent of economic globalization, the western countries insurance enterprises are also increasingly aware of enterprise competition is not only the enterprise's products, price, capital strength competition, is the enterprise brand soft power competition, insurance ethics is also growing in popularity. Enterprise is the cell of society and should bear certain social responsibility. This is both a legal and moral issue.

According to a recent survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 74% of 550 senior U. S. managers believe that corporate social responsibility helps boost profits. In 2007, the proportion of CSR reports issued by Fortune 500 companies increased considerably. There is also a very representative example of the very large SA8000 standards that have been affected in recent years. Although the United States Standardization Organization (ANsl) has not yet formally recognized the SA8000 standard, many multinational insurance companies have adopted its standards and implemented it in the day-to-day operations of the company. As a result, SA8000 is becoming more and more influential in the global context and has become an effective complement to corporate social responsibility laws. The annual report on corporate responsibility signed by the president of the western insurance companies has become a routine practice, which shows that many foreign insurance companies attach importance to social responsibility.

3., the more perfect laws and regulations are outside pressure

Because of the social responsibility consciousness of enlightenment earlier, the theoretical research on corporate social responsibility is also more fully, and achieved good results in practice, so the legislation of corporate social responsibility and the regulations system is perfect. Law is the most powerful means of safeguarding the interests of the state and the people in a modern civilized country. In order to promote the social responsibility of the enterprises, the developed countries have made the corporate social responsibility clear through the legislative branch, which makes the enterprise's commitment to social responsibility become a legal obligation. This obligation is not only the specific content and practice requirements in the law, and for failure or refusal to carry out also have negative legal evaluation and the corresponding legal remedies, therefore, it is actually on the duty of "hard constraints", is necessary to maintain the basic order of society to the minimum moral the law.

Corporate social responsibility legislation appeared earlier in the United states. In 1980s, many states in the United States made changes to the company law, which explicitly required managers to be accountable to interested stakeholders, not just to shareholders. For example, in 1983, the company related legislation in Pennsylvania was concerned with the interests of shareholders other than shareholders when the Licensing companies directors considered the best interests of the company. In 1990, in the United States business ethics policy and regulations, the government formulated some "testing items" closely related to "decision-making ethics"". At the beginning of this century, has brought the adverse social impact of American companies such as Enron scandal, the U.S. government issued so many serious company ethics act, increase the penalties for ignoring social responsibility and stakeholders of enterprises against the. After decades of development, at present, the United States has formed a relatively complete corporate legal system, many aspects of corporate social responsibility have been specifically specified.

The non legislative branch of the United States also plays a big role in Advancing Corporate Social responsibility. In 1971, the Committee on economic development in the United States was entitled "