The first principle suggested that the measuring of corporate social responsibility should consider all the stakeholders of the firm. Scholars used also the notion of dimensions to denote the various stakeholder groups, thus calling for a multi-dimensional measurement of social responsibility. The logic for this approach was drawing on the 'Stakeholder Theory of the Firm' (Freeman, 1984). As all stakeholder groups can affect or be affected by the firm, the firm which calculates social responsibility should consider its responsibility toward all the stakeholders. Thus, measurement is done by tracing social responsibility activities as they bear on each category of the primary stakeholder groups.