What is CSR? Corporate Social Responsibility is a management concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders. CSR is generally understood as being the way through which a company achieves a balance of economic‚ environmental and social imperatives (“Triple-Bottom-Line- Approach”)‚ while at the same time addressing the expectations of shareholders and stakeholders. In this sense it is important to draw a distinction
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| | IKEAMGT301 CSR Case Study Report | | Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Company History and Overview 3 Vision‚ Objective and Values 4 Meaning of Sustainability to IKEA 5 CSR Issues and Criticism 6 Why IKEA sought to address the issues through CSR 12 How IKEA sought to address the issues through CSR 13 The Natural Step 15 Public Response 17 Cultural Change Within IKEA 18 Evaluation of the Strategic Element of IKEA’s CSR Practice 22 Conclusion
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CSR IMPLEMENTATION A. Short history of CSR In the global context‚ the term CSR into use since the 1970s and increasingly popular‚ especially after the attendance book Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line in the 21st Century Business (1998)‚ by John Elkington. Developing three essential components of sustainable development‚ namely economic growth‚ environmental protection‚ and social equity‚ which was initiated by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in the Brundtland
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corporate social responsibility (CSR) by examining six sets of factors conventionally considered as promoting outcomes consistent with core principles of social responsibility: intra-organizational factors‚ competitive dynamics‚ institutional investors‚ end-consumers‚ government regulators and non-governmental organizations. Each factor is addressed conceptually‚ empirically‚ and with respect to its likely future significance in promoting outcomes consistent with CSR. Our overall conclusions are not
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Theoretical Framework: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Definition CSR is a much broader concept than business ethics. Business ethics is the application of ethics and ethical theory to the decision of business. CSR claims that businesses are more than just profit-seeking entities and‚ therefore‚ also have any obligation to benefit society. CSR is about business and other organizations going beyond the legal obligation to manage the impact they have on the environment and society
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR ) in the field of business and in the case of Parker must take corporate social responsibility ‚ not only as a concept in business management ‚ but also as a foundation on which to settle the principles of corporate culture . This is because the industrial sector in which the company has to accept and assume a CSR that is necessary for the development of its core business. We could define Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR ) as the voluntary integration of
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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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Paper ARCHIE CARROLL’S CSR PYRAMID: A case study of Bajaj Auto Ltd. ZAMAN ALI 20091063 B.A.LLB (2009) Jindal Global Law School Today‚ in this complex business environment where all business enterprises are surviving by realizing maximum profits possible‚ there exists a mechnism called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that is providing the required edge towards success. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the way a corporation
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workplace. With all of these facts provided‚ Microsoft has been the leading conglomerate of having the best CSR. They have actively helped small businesses by purchasing
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Responsibility (CSR) can improve the competitiveness of a company and that the CSR activities develop a favourable corporate image and their financial performance (Burke & Logsdon 1996). CSR is defined as the obligation of organisation management to make decisions and take actions that will enhance the welfare and interests of society as well as the organisation (Samson & Daft 2009). Some say that the significance of social responsibility has been changed up until today in that CSR activity may not
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