we explore CSV not as a solution to capitalism’s problems but as a symptom of an approach to management scholarship that is itself endemic to the current failings of the capitalist system.
CSV is Unoriginal
Porter and Kramer present CSV as a novel contribution, yet its core premises
bear a striking similarity to existing concepts of CSR, stakeholder management, and
social innovation. This argument only holds up because they caricature the CSR literature
to suit their own ends and simply rehash the existing stakeholder and social
innovation literatures without due acknowledgement.