CORPORATE HISTORY. Akio Morita‚ Masaru Ibuka‚ and Tamon Maeda (Ibuka’s father- in- law) started Tokyo telecommunications Engineering in 1946 with funding from Morita’s father’s sake business. The company produced the first Japanese tape recorder in 1950. Three years later‚ Morita paid Western Electric (US) $25‚000 for transistor technology licenses‚ which sparked a consumer electronics revolution in Japan. His firm launched one of the first transistor radios in 1955‚ followed by the first
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Corporate Social Responsibility Hashim Rizwan 250631955 MOS 3353 550 Bill Iwrin Corporate social responsibility can simply be identified as a duty‚ which is not a legal obligation lately‚ under very much consideration by every multinationals‚ as well as the growing firm. The ongoing concern is meant to increase the awareness between the business Individuals‚ to implement and draw line which should clearly indicates that what social obligation an organization has towards the
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Preliminary Draft - Comments Welcome CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD?* RAY FISMAN GEOFFREY HEAL VINAY B. NAIR# Abstract We provide a framework for analyzing corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our model of CSR in this paper has two important ingredients – CSR is at least in part a profit motivated decision; and different CSR activities are aimed at different audiences. We examine the implications of our framework using a ‘visible’ CSR index that captures
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two decades is the corporate social responsibility of organizations. Opinions about business’s social responsibilities lie mainly between two extremes. At the one extreme is the classical view that states business is an economic institution directed towards profit whose only responsibility to society is to provide goods and services and to return maximum benefits to shareholders (Robbins‚ Bergman‚ Stagg and Coulter‚ 2003: 136). The Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman endorsed this classical
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that concentrates huge material and human resources. Surfing from Internet site to Internet site I have found that Internetworking in the Middle East region has a well established system that may accelerate the diffusion of culture in this area. For example‚ at the end of January Internet access across large parts of the Middle East was severely disrupted. Two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were damaged‚ leaving about 70 percent of Internet users in Egypt without access to Internet services. Egypt
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Corporate Social Responsibility: An Analysis of Google Introduction The concept of social responsibility began in the 1950s‚ along with the study of its relationship with business (Archie 1999; Frank‚ Peter 2005). Although the discussion between social responsibility and commence appeared early‚ it is attached much or more attention today‚ especially when we come into an era where globalization has become an heated topic. In other words‚ the global furious competitive market environment has
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common sentiment to hear Milton Friedman described as left of center in political spheres. Certainly‚ Friedman’s landmark essay The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits in the New York Times magazine was filled with many assertions that placed him as a bulwark for a growing conservative movement who felt a vindication for the free market mechanism and skepticism for the role of government. However‚ while reading Friedman muse over the social responsibilities of businesses‚ one cannot
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January 2011 Online privacy as a corporate social responsibility: an empirical study Irene Pollach Aarhus School of Business‚ University of Aarhus‚ Aarhus‚ Denmark Information technology and the Internet have added a new stakeholder concern to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda: online privacy. While theory suggests that online privacy is a CSR‚ only very few studies in the business ethics literature have connected these two. Based on a study of CSR disclosures‚ this article contributes
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CSR in India and Its Impact on Society Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is about how businesses align their values and behavior with the expectations and needs of stakeholders - not just customers and investors‚ but also employees‚ suppliers‚ communities‚ regulators‚ special interest groups and society as a whole. CSR describes a company’s commitment to be accountable to its stakeholders. With businesses focusing on generating profits‚ sustainability was not a popular concern among companies
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