CSR & Sustainability Case Study The LEGO Group CSR & Sustainability Case Study The LEGO Group Introduction The LEGO Group is a privately held company based in Billund‚ Denmark. It was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen‚ initially a small carpenter’s workshop (Lego Group‚ 2011). It has since grown into a modern‚ global enterprise that is now‚ in terms of sales‚ the world’s fourth-largest manufacturer of toys (Keynote‚ 2010). The LEGO Groups core product is a line of plastic
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confidential Employee Assistance Program with professional counseling service to help employees address personal or work-related concerns. Those above activities are some of the example of corporate social responsibilities (CSR). These are mainly focus on the Society side of CSR. In its 2007 International Good Practice Guidance‚ "Defining and Developing an Effective Code of Conduct for Organizations"‚ the International Federation of Accountants provided the following working definition: "Principles
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average seat kilometer AirAsia focused on ensuring a competitive cost structure as its main business strategy. It has been able to achieve a cost per average seat kilometer (ASK) of 2.5 cents‚ half that of Malaysia Airlines and Ryanair and a third that of EasyJet. AirAsia can lease the B737-300s aircraft at a very competitive market rates due to the harsh global market conditions for the second-hand aircrafts because of the September 11th event in 2001. Low distribution cost AirAsia focus on Internet
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Social Responsibility (CSR) is the notion that business companies have obligations to society beyond their economic obligations. In a way‚ CSR is the company’s way of giving back to society and a way of being aware about the condition of the society and the environment. CSR is about how companies make profit‚ not how they spend them. It does not entail that the company should donate to charities or that they should use their profit on organizations with a positive cause. CSR is based on the idea that
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1. Lack of stakeholder engagement strategy – Apple simply doesn’t believe it needs to engage stakeholders‚ not to mention having an engagement strategy. We can see it every time‚ from not sharing information with Greenpeace about why Greenpeace got it wrong about the power consumption of Apple’s North Carolina data center to not responding at first to Chinese environmental groups investigating pollution issues in Apple’s supply chain in China. Another example is Apple’s tendency to reply to questions
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means that a corporation should be held accountable for any of its actions that affect people‚ their communities‚ and their environment. Actually‚ MTR has been implementation of CSR. Since 1993‚ MTR staff will use their spare time to contribute to society‚ spontaneously organize and participate in volunteer activities. In 2005‚ MTR has also set up a volunteer program‚ to provide support for employees. The the MTR at “railway people‚ railway Heart” volunteers
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Nike CSR Corporate social responsibility can be defined as the "economic‚ legal‚ ethical‚ and discretionary expectations that society has of organisations at a given point in time" (Carroll and Buchholtz 2003‚ p. 36). The concept of corporate social responsibility means that organizations have moral‚ ethical‚ and philanthropic responsibilities in addition to their responsibilities to earn a fair return for investors and comply with the law. A traditional view of the corporation suggests that its
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many organizations today is corporate social responsibility‚ which focuses on how businesses deal with their environmental‚ social and economic impacts. CSR is a set of actions of a company that changes business operations to improve‚ maintain‚ or mitigate a company’s impact on society and the environment. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs benefit businesses two-fold: they help businesses operate in ways that benefit society and help improve public perception Types of corporate
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Netflix‚ does not have a sustainability report in their form 10-K‚ nor do they have any mention to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that can be located on their webpage. After an exhausting search through third party sites‚ it has been determined that Netflix has no mention of CSR. So‚ in that vein‚ we accepted the challenge in designing a CSR report for Netflix. CSR can be dissected into three broad categories; Social Responsibility‚ Economic Responsibility‚ and Environmental Responsibility.
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Case Sustainability Initiative at Roche Table of Contents Introduction 3 Sustainable development: the triple bottom line 3 Economic‚ social and environmental responsibility 3 Social responsibility: the key elements 5 Corporate Responsibility Innovation at Roche 5 What is corporate responsibility? 5 Corporate responsibility according to the Roche corporate brochure 6 Target of responsibility as reflected in reported organizational structures‚ policies and practices. 7 Gaining competitive
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