Building from recent criticisms that mainstream Political Corporate Social Responsibility (PCSR) has failed to effectively grapple with the potential expansion of corporate influence in society, we advance a new conceptualization of CSR inspired by American federalist political theory. As federalism has served as a prevailing American theory for arranging governmental political power for the advancement of the public interest, we derive from federalist principles descriptive, normative, and instrumental theoretical foundations for arranging corporate power and directing corporate social action in the pursuit of similar goals. What we call ‘Federated Corporate Social Responsibility’ (FCSR) revives an older institutional approach to corporate responsibility, paying particular attention to the division of moral labor in society and how different corporate responsibility prescriptions stand to affect the social ecosystem of power. Federalist institutional strategies deploying separations of power and constitutions are used to develop a concept of corporate ‘constitutional devices,’ which have promise to constrain the corporation as it fulfills its social responsibilities, even outside the ambit of a strong state and in light of barriers to constant, effective stakeholder accountability. We conclude by outlining FCSR managerial strategies, which sometimes endorse corporate social inaction in the interest of a desirable distribution of authority across society.

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联合企业社会责任：约束负责任的公司

基于最近对主流政治企业社会责任 (PCSR) 未能有效应对企业在社会中影响力的潜在扩张的批评，我们提出了受美国联邦主义政治理论启发的企业社会责任新概念。由于联邦制已成为美国为促进公共利益而安排政府政治权力的流行理论，因此我们从联邦主义原则中获得了描述性、规范性和工具性的理论基础，用于安排公司权力和指导公司社会行动以追求类似的目标. 我们所说的“联合企业社会责任”（FCSR）复兴了一种较旧的企业责任制度方法，特别关注社会中的道德分工以及不同的企业责任处方如何影响社会权力生态系统。部署权力和宪法分离的联邦主义制度战略被用来发展公司“宪法设备”的概念，这有望限制公司履行其社会责任，即使在强大的国家范围之外并鉴于障碍持续、有效的利益相关者问责制。最后，我们概述了 FCSR 管理策略，该策略有时支持企业社会不作为，以实现在整个社会中理想的权力分配。部署权力和宪法分离的联邦主义制度战略被用来发展公司“宪法设备”的概念，这有望限制公司履行其社会责任，即使在强大的国家范围之外并鉴于障碍持续、有效的利益相关者问责制。最后，我们概述了 FCSR 管理策略，该策略有时支持企业社会不作为，以实现在整个社会中理想的权力分配。部署权力和宪法分离的联邦主义制度战略被用来发展公司“宪法设备”的概念，这有望限制公司履行其社会责任，即使在强大的国家范围之外并鉴于障碍持续、有效的利益相关者问责制。最后，我们概述了 FCSR 管理策略，该策略有时支持企业社会不作为，以实现在整个社会中理想的权力分配。