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Journal of Business Ethics (2008) 81:355–370 Springer 2007 DOI 10.1007/s10551-007-9500-7 Corporate Social Responsibility Nelarine Cornelius Mathew Todres and the Social Enterprise Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj Adrian Woods James Wallace ABSTRACT. In this article, we contend that due to ABBREVIATIONS: CSR: Corporate social responsi- their size and emphasis upon addressing external social bility; CI: Corporate identity; HRM: Human Resource concerns, the corporate relationship between social Management; HRD: Human Resource Development; enterprises, social awareness and action is more complex OI: Organisational Identity; SME: Small to medium sized than whether or not these organisations engage in enterprise corporate social responsibility (CSR). This includes organisations that place less emphasis on CSR as well as other organisations that may be very proficient in CSR Introduction initiatives, but are less successful in recording practices. In this context, we identify a number of internal CSR According to the United Kingdom (UK) govern- markers that may be applied to measuring the extent to ment’s Department of Trade and Industry (2002: 7) which internal CSR practices are being observed. These a social enterprise is: ‘‘a business with primarily social