CSR in controversial industries
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1 Background
Corporate social responsibility, or CSR, has always been fascinating to me, companies giving back to the society to create a better world. A lot of what I have read in the topic of CSR is the companies that get universally hailed by the people for doing good, but how about companies that is often in negatively spotlights? Companies that are creating products that harm peoples well being, destroying the environment or even leads to people’s death. I wanted to broad my view on these controversial industries and see how they use CSR and if it is the right way to go for such companies.
I have decided to focus on these industries due to that when people talk about CSR they mostly mention companies that get positive feedback, but the controversial industries, do they use CSR and in that case how? Can companies that create products/services that is harmful, help to create a better world with CSR or are they just trying to get good Public relations (PR) for once?
2 Method
My method was to use the search engines that are recommended by the school library, mainly Scopus but also Google Scholar. I used these two due to the fact that it has easy access; you can do really advanced searches to narrow down to relevant and most essential information and can easily see how often the article has been cited. I first focused on the ones who had been cited most times and then used the “snowball effect” to find relevant data in those articles reference lists. My main search words where Corporate social responsibility combined with Controversial industries to narrow it down to information that would be useful and within my topic. What I found was that most of the articles where relatively new and that could be a reason why some articles did not have that many citations. My conclusion of this was that this is a relatively new topic and starting to be a trend so I wanted to see if one could do further research in this topic.
3 Framework
CSR has
1 Background
Corporate social responsibility, or CSR, has always been fascinating to me, companies giving back to the society to create a better world. A lot of what I have read in the topic of CSR is the companies that get universally hailed by the people for doing good, but how about companies that is often in negatively spotlights? Companies that are creating products that harm peoples well being, destroying the environment or even leads to people’s death. I wanted to broad my view on these controversial industries and see how they use CSR and if it is the right way to go for such companies.
I have decided to focus on these industries due to that when people talk about CSR they mostly mention companies that get positive feedback, but the controversial industries, do they use CSR and in that case how? Can companies that create products/services that is harmful, help to create a better world with CSR or are they just trying to get good Public relations (PR) for once?
2 Method
My method was to use the search engines that are recommended by the school library, mainly Scopus but also Google Scholar. I used these two due to the fact that it has easy access; you can do really advanced searches to narrow down to relevant and most essential information and can easily see how often the article has been cited. I first focused on the ones who had been cited most times and then used the “snowball effect” to find relevant data in those articles reference lists. My main search words where Corporate social responsibility combined with Controversial industries to narrow it down to information that would be useful and within my topic. What I found was that most of the articles where relatively new and that could be a reason why some articles did not have that many citations. My conclusion of this was that this is a relatively new topic and starting to be a trend so I wanted to see if one could do further research in this topic.
3 Framework
CSR has
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