Abstract

The essay examines the issues of Csr related to the legal debate about globalisation consequences. The European Strategy for sustainable development, for promoting core labour standards and improving social and environmental governance is the framework of the presentation and analysis of the first results of a multidisciplinary and comparative European research. This research, called Ester, examines the social practices of European firms inspired by the Csr. Those practices provide a point of view for observing the European social model challenged by international competition.