A book on corporate social responsibility law in Vietnam

A collection of perspectives

Edited by Nguyen Binh An and Phan Thong Anh, the volume includes contributions on hard and soft law, business and human rights, labor rights, child labor and COVID-19. It is a research collection with individual chapter authors, rather than a consolidated legal instrument.

The hard-law/soft-law distinction provides a useful reading anchor. A legal duty, voluntary commitment and stakeholder expectation can have different standing even when all are discussed under CSR. Keeping those layers separate improves conceptual precision.

A useful challenge for survey research

An employee-perception scale cannot establish legal compliance. A written duty cannot establish what employees actually experience. Before specifying a CSR variable, decide which of these levels your question concerns.

Learning exercise created by Lê Minh: for a CSR–employee-engagement project, separate labor obligations, publicly described corporate activities and employee perceptions. Identify suitable evidence for each before drafting the questionnaire. This is a preparation framework, not a validated scale taken from the book.

Read and verify selectively

Start with hard and soft law, then select the rights or employment context relevant to your project. Record each chapter’s argument, legal basis and date separately. Cite the chapter author when using a particular contribution.

For current applications, check authoritative legal texts and their effective dates. A 2023 publication is not automatically current legal guidance. The book’s role is to sharpen the conceptual and contextual questions that subsequent verification must address.

Who should consider it

Business, human-resource and socio-legal researchers may benefit from the Vietnam-specific context. Readers seeking a ready-to-administer CSR questionnaire will need additional measurement literature. The productive takeaway is a more precise account of responsibility, accountable actors and evidence of implementation, rather than a simple label that a company either “has CSR” or does not.

Choose a companion reading

Continue with: Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education (2019 · English).

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