The Lack of Consistency between Corporate Lobbying and CSR policies

Although many multinational corporations have developed comprehensive CSR policies in the past ten years, most of these companies do not refer to ethical aspects of corporate lobbying in their business principles or codes of conduct. Political donations (OECD 2000) and policy influence to support human rights (Holme and Watts 2000) are sometimes recognized as CSR issues. However, efforts to systematically align corporate lobbying in general with CSR principles are often lacking (Blowfield 2005).