A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy By Dina Gerdeman 28 MAY 2012 RESEARCH & IDEAS : http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6994.html Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company ’s effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. CSR may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit
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Archie Carroll’s View of Corporate Social Responsibility 1 By Rodolfo Arango Archie Carroll’s hierarchical chart depicting the four components of his view on corporate social responsibility is sketched out as a pyramid for ease of use and understanding. The pyramids wide base‚ and the foundation of this theory‚ represents “economic responsibility” the basic building block for a positive corporation. This layer of the pyramid makes the distinction that it is the responsibility of an organization is
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Mini Case Report – The Dilemma at Day-Pro 1) PayBack Period for Synthetic Resin and Epoxy Resin: Synthetic Resin PBP = 2 + 250/200 = 2.5 years Epoxy Resin PBP = 1 + 200/400 = 1.5 years To show that using the Payback Period to evaluate the projects is flawed‚ Tim can argue that the PayBack Period ignores the time value of money‚ requires an arbitrary cutoff point‚ ignores cash flows beyond the cutoff date‚ and is biased against long-term projects‚ such as research and development‚ and new projects
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Student full name I Gde Wiradhitya Samuhata Student ID number U3080119 Class‚ Module‚ Year PPP Indigo‚ Module 5‚ 2013 Name of teacher Graham MacKinnell Assignment title Evaluate the benefits for a company of practicing Corporate Social Responsibility Word Count 1‚400 words Due date 26 June 2013 You must keep a photocopy or electronic copy of your assignment Student declaration I certify that the attached is my own work. Material drawn from other sources has
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environment. They are a large producer of coal/energy. The company sells more than 190 million tons of coal per year. Peabody has even gone as far to try and cheat coal workers out of their promised pensions. Product Tampering - major case of product tampering would be the case is 1991 from Sudafed. This product tampering actually caused people to be rushed to the hospital and or die. Some of the bottles put up on the shelves were laced with Cyanide. Later on the culprit was later caught‚ after buying cyanide
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involved and some who were not involved in CSR activities at Infosys. CSR Activities at Infosys All surveyed respondents acknowledged the increasing importance of CSR to a company both from the image and goodwill point of view as well as from the responsibility they believed a company had to the society. However a number of the respondents were not aware of the initiatives being carried out by Infosys except for passing mention in mails and newsletters of the company. Inferences drawn Infosys has set
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Social Responsibility Undertaken By Videocon : PHILOSOPHY AND RESOLVE: No business can function in a vacuum. There is the society at large with which it engages in innumerable transactions; the more involved the engagement‚ the better its qualitative and quantitative effect on the business. Aware of this debt to society‚ Videocon is committed to fulfilling its obligations: both as providers of products as well as community initiatives. They have undertaken social responsibility through the following
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David Maes Hayley Sondergaard Mariann Sajtos 2013 Anders G. Hansen Christoffer Hass Mátyás Hulik David Maes Hayley Sondergaard Mariann Sajtos Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in the paper industry Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in the paper industry Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in the paper industry Name and address of the authors * Anders Garlev Hansen (PB3) ___________________________ Øsdalvej
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Intitech vs The Coffee Bean 1. How would you gauge Peter’s achievement orientation? What are some of the needs not being met for Peter Gibbons at Initech? What changes might improve Peter’s motivation? Peter Gibbons is clearly subjected to a bad work environment‚ and lack of motivation which is his primary fuel for really hating his job. His achievement orientatin is low at best‚ and he has developed an lack of motivation to achieve success. This could have been created by Initech itself‚
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In recent times‚ there has been huge concern on the issue of ethical leadership in the corporate world. Researchers have increasingly shifted their attention towards identifying what could be driving costly unethical behaviour in organizations. Organizations leadership stresses short-term result while disregarding the long-term implications of their actions. The result has been scandals and accounting frauds. Companies such as Enron‚ WorldCom (Knights and O’Leary‚ 2005)‚ and Nortel executives (manipulating
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