RESPONSABILITATE SOCIALA CORPORATISTA SI COMPETITIVITATE

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main opportunities and limitations of corporate social responsibility in the business environment. We propose a new way to look at the relationship between business and society that does not treat corporate success and social welfare as a zerosum game. Each company can identify the parti - cular set of social problems that it is best equipped with and helps to solve them from which it can gain the greatest competitive benefit. Organizations that make the right choices and build focused, proactive and integrated social initiatives in concert with their core strategies will take the competitive advantage. This paper provides knowledge which may be useful in the programs promoting CSR in Romania.