This research paper focuses on the constant conflict of businesses working towards corporate social responsibility with ethical or economic considerations. Hence, it reviews the government, markets and social norms as the pressure behind corporate social responsibility. This brings us to the basic rationale behind CSR and to whom these firms bring those CSR schemes. The paper also analyses various companies' perspectives on CSR and their expenditures on these schemes. Further, it talks about CSR as a byproduct of the ethical practices of the firms, which follows up to consider the kinds of CSR that are important to be taken care of. This leads to the origin of CSR, as the result of labour conflicts in the 19th century, which elaborates on the current situation in the three pressures which discipline companies into a certain social behaviour.