Five Years of Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility in India (2014–2019)

Abstract

India became one of the first countries to mandate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for certain large, stable companies; as a result, it also became the hotspot for research on mandated CSR. To study this transformation is important, as mandated CSR is not just a research on CSR, but on behavior change of institutions; which in effect, influences individual attitudes. This chapter introduces the CSR mandate in short; documents some of the subjective observations on various transformations noticed in the last five years; and most importantly, introduces the structure of this book. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.