Different organisations have different definitions of corporate social responsibility, although there is much common ground. Definitions generally focus on how companies manage their core business to add social, environmental and economic value in order to produce a positive sustainable impact for both society and for the business. Terms such as ‘socially responsible business’ and ‘corporate citizenship’ are used to mean the same thing. We will use the term corporate social responsibility throughout this paper. Our wider analysis of how the private sector – domestic and foreign – can contribute to development is set out in Chapter 4 of the White Paper on International Development ‘Making Globalisation Work for the Poor