FTA 시대 다국적기업의 해외직접투자와 사회적 책임에 관한 연구

A Study on the Corporate Social Responsibility and Foreign Direct Investment of the Multinational Enterprises in the FTA Era -A Case of OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises-

The purpose of this study is to realize the importance of CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) on foreign direct investment. This paper examines mainly the OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises which are recommendations addressed by governments. This paper also provides a case study of two decisions rendered by the implementation procedures of the OECD Guidelines. The OECD Guidelines are the leading international code of conduct for CSR. Many multinational enterprises are using these guidelines in various fields. However the OECD Guidelines do not offer a specific standard for conditions of parties. It is therefore possible to interpret the guidelines in an inaccurate and misleading manner. Therefore the OECD Secretariat should rapidly provide specific criterion for problems that may occur. If multinational enterprises ignore the guidelines, they could be subject to direct or indirect losses, and would have to deal with a negative corporate image. In the long run, they would have to spend a lot of money to improve its view in public opinion. Therefore, governments need to actively promote the OECD Guidelines in order to set a global standard for CSR in multinational enterprises.