INTRODUCTION ITC Limited ‚ is an Indian conglomerate with a turnover of US $ 6 billion and a market capitalization of over US $ 22 Billion. The company is currently headed by YOGESH CHANDER DEVESHWAR. It employs over 26‚000 people at more than 60 locations across India and is listed on FORBES 2000. ITC Limited completes 100 years on 24th August‚ 2010. ITC BUSINESS PORTFOLIO • Fmcg Paper & Packaging • Hotels • Agri Business • Information Technology • Cigarettes • Personal
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awareness? 1. Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by a company is seen through the public as a way of providing to the society through goodwill and donations. In actual fact‚ CSR means much more than that. (Hopkins 2007) defines CSR as “treating the stakeholder of the firm ethically or in a responsible manner”. To expand on what Hopkins mention‚ (Wan-Jan 2006) describes CSR as a combination of a business and ethical strategy. By not expecting anything in return
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Siemens and the illusion of CSR and codes of business integrity Siemens just settled on a major international corruption case. It turns out that over the past decade Siemens and some of its subsidiaries made at least 4‚283 payments either to public officials or “agents” to secure or retain contracts. The estimated amount of the payments made in more than ten countries surpassed $1.4 billion. During the current case‚ the criminal damages from Siemens were calculated to amount for up to $2.7 billion
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TOYOTA RECALL: An issue that put its aim of “moving forward’’ to a standstill CSR‚ Corporate Social Responsibility‚ is currently a fashion in the business world. Many corporations and/or organizations set up divisions of CSR and have been publishing reports of their CSR activities in the past decade. To explain and understand this concept further let me tell you about the most talked about organization in the past few years‚ Toyota Motors which has been facing certain criticism in its business
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Academy of Management Review 2012‚ Vol. 37‚ No. 2‚ 300–326. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.2010.0522 UNDERSTANDING ATTRIBUTIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL IRRESPONSIBILITY DONALD LANGE Arizona State University NATHAN T. WASHBURN Thunderbird School of Global Management Notwithstanding the significance to organizations of external reactions to bad behavior‚ the corporate social responsibility literature tends to focus on the meaning of and expectations for responsible behavior‚ rather than on the meaning
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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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EXAMPLES OF GOOD CSR AND BAD CSR IN TELECOMMUNICATION IN INDUSTRY Evaluating CSR using B&L Framework | Ashwani K Sinha CONT ENTS 1. 2. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................. 3 SELECTION OF INDUSTRY .................................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 2.2 2.2.1 2.2.2 CSR issues in general
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Tesco‚ corporations‚ society and consumers In this essay we are going to start to look closer at what is important for a business and what is important for society. We are going to look closer at Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)‚ and find out what it means for a business and society. Some businesses‚ especially big businesses‚ shape many aspects of our lives. Some are around us all the time. Some have turnovers larger then a normal person can imagine. Some multi nationals have turnovers larger
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Management in Dynamic Environments DB – GE Question 1: What is General Electric’s corporate-level strategy and why is it important? Corporate Level strategy is an action a firm takes to gain a competitive advantage by selecting and managing a groups of different businesses competing in different product markets. GE uses corporate level strategies as a means to grow revenues and profits‚ and an additional strategic intents to growth. This is important because it allows GE to select new strategic positions
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competitiveness Firm operates diversified businesses such as innovation technology‚ media‚ financial services and energy infrastructures. GE is the one of world leader companies in field of development‚ implementation and product improvement. Firm focus on infrastructure markets because the markets are growing utilizing GE capabilities in technology. The major strength of GE has been changed since the firm sold NBC Universal as know as CNBC‚ 51% approximately in order to purchase new platforms of energy
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