[Type the company name] | Wal- Mart CSR Initiative | Case Analysis | | [Type the author name] | 10/30/2010 | | Case 1: Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Strategy Q. Given the fact that Wal-Mart’s Customer’s are unwilling to pay a premium for environmentally friendly products‚ how is the company deriving business value from its sustainability strategy or if not‚ how can it ensure that it does? Ans: Wal-Mart’s sustainability strategy has further improved its already efficient supply chain
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(Spector‚ 2008 cited in Carroll and Shabana‚ 2010: 86)‚ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been becoming an increasingly influencing factor in corporate governance. KPMG (2008 cited in Du et al.‚ 2010: 13) indicates that the proportion of the 250 hugest enterprises in the world who annually release CSR reports has grown up from 50% in 2005 to 80% in 2008. Porter and Kramer (2006: 80) declare that CSR is more likely to be advantages such as ‘opportunity‚ innovation‚ and competitive advantage’
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sustainable CSR Strategy through a System Dynamics Perspective: evidences from a Colombian case-study Enzo Bivona (*) ‚ Sonia Herrera Daza (**) Abstract During last decades‚ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies received a growing attention from both businesses and non profit organisations. However‚ very often organisations fail to correctly implement a successful CSR strategy. Through the analysis of a case-study‚ this paper tries to demonstrates how a CSR strategy could
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Unlike USA‚ Europe has developed a variety of policies‚ which are very scalable. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and once past the time when the polarity communism / capitalism dominated relations in Europe‚ CSR model of the unified Germany seemed to be mostly represented as the European specificity. Driven by Germany and adopted by many countries of the European Union‚ this approach is characterized by a desire to combine economic efficiency and social justice. German model grants the state and
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“Creating Shared Value is built upon fundamental commitments to society‚ both to achieve the highest standards of compliance with laws‚ codes of conduct and our own Nestlé Corporate Business Principles as well as to protect the environment for future generations.” – Paul Bulcke‚ CEO Nestle To continue to prosper over the long term‚ we need to ensure that the communities we serve and in which we operate prosper too. We are determined to ensure that our global presence and operations bring benefits
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An inventory of CSR issues of Burger King Organizational Systems and Corporate Responsibility A Burger King Worldwide is a Delaware corporation that franchises and operates fast food hamburger restaurants‚ principally under the Burger King® brand (also referred to as the "Brand"). Since the company’s founding as a single restaurant in Miami‚ Florida in 1954‚ we have grown to become the world´s second largest fast food hamburger restaurant‚ or FFHR‚ chain as measured by the total number of restaurants
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“The Food and drink Industry is very important to the economy of the UK. The UK is the world’s fifth largest grocery retail market and the largest in Europe‚ worth around US$156 billion in 2005” (uk trade and investment 2006 p30). This sector is the largest manufacturing industry “accounting for 17% of the total manufacturing sector” (defra 1.11.2007) “This scale has made it a strategically important market for both manufacturers and retailers‚ generating investment from many overseas companies
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Historical overview of the Australian food science and technology industry. When the Europeans arrived in 1788‚ they were confronted with an arid land and food supplies far removed from what they had left behind. They encountered the Aboriginal people‚ a civilisation not expected‚ and in addition they discovered many new and varied techniques for hunting‚ processing and storing foods. Techniques included: leaching poison from nuts that could take days or even weeks; catching fish with nets made
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Emerging Trends in CSR in India Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR as is popularly known is a system of gauging an organization’s bearing on society and weighing their responsibilities. CSR is not just about getting involved in some charitable practices or having ecological responsibility and a recycling policy. It is about the whole representation of the company which is to be considered‚ from internal practices to their clients‚ taking in every stride that a business takes during its usual
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The term CSR could lead to an understanding that only companies or enterprises could actually apply the CSR principles in their business. For example‚ the definition of the corporation itself could vary in different English speaking countries as according to the dictionary of American English‚ the word corporation is most often used to describe large business corporations. In British English and in the Commonwealth countries‚ the term company is more widely used to describe the same sort of entity
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