A further obstacle to establishing the right regulatory framework was the residual influence of past concepts of CSR, with their emphasis on philanthropy and voluntarism.
This, along with other factors leading to State capture, such as corporate lobbying, government reliance on business in general (or on specific corporations) for revenues, personal or party political interests or investments, made it difficult in many contexts to secure support for regulatory approaches, with political will being particularly weak about the human rights impacts of business activities abroad