The phrase “Corporate Social Responsibility” originates with H. Bowen‚ who wrote “Social Responsibility of Businessmen” in 1953. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is broadly used to describe businesses’ integration of social and environmental issues into decisions‚ goals‚ and operations. According to World Business Council for Sustainable Development “Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving
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HKU395 ZHIGANG TAO SHANGHAI GENERAL MOTORS: THE RISE OF A LATE-COMER In February 1998‚ the Asian Wall Street Journal‚ sceptical at General Motor’s (GM) investment in China‚ ran a front-page story with the headline‚ “GM bets big on a market littered with casualties.”1 Seven years later‚ in January 2005‚ GM featured once again in the same paper‚ only this time‚ the headline was more positive “GM vehicle sales in China rose 27% in 2004”.2 While Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) maintained its leadership
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A Study of Corporate Social Responsibility Starbucks Introduction Business is a part of the total society in which it operates. As a major element of society‚ businesses affect people in multiple ways. Society‚ In turn‚ influences the conduct of business. Company History The story of Starbucks begins in Seattle in the year 1971‚ the first store opened its doors in the Pike Place Market.In 1982 Howard Schultz joins Starbucks ans the director of marketing and retail.He develops a plan to develop
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They are achieving their mission by their corporate social responsibility activities (CSR). Corporate social responsibility (CSR)‚ it is the way that the company manages their business to manage the processes of a business to support the society positively. There are three main types philanthropy‚ community-based development and creating
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BOH 4M1 Investigating Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility Assignment Organizations and the managers within them are faced with tough decisions every day. Some of the toughest involve those of an ethical nature‚ where the interests of the organization and its stakeholders need to be taken into consideration. You and a partner will research an organization in order to determine what their stance and actions are with regard to being a socially responsible group. Upon completion
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Question 1 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is going beyond compliance to the law. It is an obligation for a business to pursue long term goals that are good for society and it is about how a company manages its business to produce an overall positive impact on society. The triple bottom line of CSR encompasses three pillars‚ namely people‚ planet and profit. It encapsulates an extended array of components that measure that organisation’s performance‚ which are social‚ environmental and financial
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Week 3 Assignment Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Professor Michael Wasson BUSN-115-61763 Introduction to Business & Technology Rosalind M. Stift 03/23/2014 The United States has several laws that are intended to further fair‚ balanced‚ and competitive practices. I do feel that these laws are effective in many ways. Some of those ways I will pin point in the next few paragraphs. These laws include some major concepts of law. Some of these
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esNo progress was made from the 2005-2008 survey So there was little impact made in the way of ethical behavior There was a little change though in specific areas * New Rigor We are going to run into these situation and we are not being trained to do what we run into them We are now trying to be prepared for those situation MBA training for ‘value conflicts’ 20% not at all‚ 58% somewhat Conflicts arise every three months Trying to get business schools to inject some kind of trying
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Social responsibility is defined as the organizations obligation to maximize their positive impact on stakeholders‚ and to minimize their negative impact on stakeholders. Social responsibility embodies what is fair as well as represents stakeholder’s rights. Companies have the social responsibility to be profitable‚ to obey the law‚ to be ethical‚ and to be philanthropic. For example‚ social responsibility has a strong relationship with profitability because if a company’s image or conduct is questionable
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Executive Summary Being one of the largest automakers in the world‚ General Motors (GM) undertakes its manufacturing operations in over 30 countries with vehicles being sold in over 200 countries. Through undertaking its international operations it also subjects itself to various types of foreign exchange exposures due to fluctuations in the values of currencies; to manage this problem it has adopted a passive hedging policy and aims to reduce the impact of foreign exchange exposures on the business
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