In our paper, we aim to explore Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the context of business ethics. The paper
studies CSR as a concept and also as a set of actions embedded in the ethicality of the business. Our paper draws
inspiration from the interpretation of Freeman's (1984) normative stakeholder theory as cited in Parmar et al (2010)
and the concept that organisations are “embedded” in the social and biological environment around them
(Bjerregaard and Lauring 2013 pp134). Business organisations are an integral part of the social, economic and
environmental systems around them. Therefore, their activities , structure and processes need to take responsibility
for the impact they have on stakeholders and on the society which supports their existence .It is not sufficient to
define CSR as limited to business efforts that reach out to people or other aspects of the environment as
beneficiaries defined by the company. The fall out effects that a company has on the wider community, today and
tomorrow need to be incorporated in CSR sensitization for ethics and CSR to be treated interchangeably.