In recent times, some people have come up with new ideas of corporate social responsibility.
Social responsibility means many things to many people.
There are responsibilities to shareholders, employees, the public and the environment. There are as many opinions on the subject as there are stars in the sky, and each one has at least one special interest group working towards it. Milton Friedman, of course, was right. For example, the San Jose Mercury News recently published an article about how continued expansion of large Silicon Valley companies has filtered down to small companies that they contract with and that their employees purchase goods and services from. Cypress Semiconductor of San Jose is an excellent example, and advocate, of real corporate responsibility.