Ethicists say it is one that makes a better community, they want corporations to be 'good citizens'.
Their language is Corporate Citizenship or Social Responsibility, their tools for ensuring the desired outcome are audits of the ethical behaviour of corporations, particularly their supposed environmental and social obligations. They argue that corporations need to move beyond their traditional role of producing goods and services responsibly. They observe that corporations are delivering services that in the past were provided by government. They interpret this to mean that governments are withdrawing from providing for the needs of citizens. These arguments and interpretations are without foundation.