Corporate social responsibility (CSR) came into focus in the 1990s in response to mounting pressure from global-, national-, and local-level institutions for corporations to be held accountable for moral failings—from financial scandals and environmental devastation to human rights abuses. It emerged as a platform to deliver sustainable development and address environmental and community development issues vis-á-vis commercial enterprise. CSR is now established within a web of standards that make up a burgeoning ethical industry. Building on the much longer history of anthropology of development, a growing field of ethnographic enquiry has emerged which asks how we begin to make sense of new CSR regimes, the practices they give rise to, both locally and globally, and the ways in which those practices reconfigure social and economic relations. An anthropology of CSR thus explores both the apparatus and architecture of CSR, as well as its local effects, contestations, interpretations, and responses.