The modern concept of CSR can be more clearly traced to the mid-to-late 1800s, with
industrialists like John H. Patterson of National Cash Register seeding the industrial welfare
movement and philanthropists like John D. Rockerfeller setting a charitable precedent that
we see echoed more than a hDespite these early variations, CSR only entered the popular lexicon in the 1950s with R.
Bowen’s landmark book, Social Responsibilities of the Businessmanundred years later with the likes of Bill Gates