“The social responsibility can be defined as the obligation of the organization to act in ways that serve both its own interests (making a profit) and the interests of its stakeholder.” (Sandy Millar‚ Christopher Theunissen‚ 2008‚ P69) Socially responsible organization takes action to ensure that their activities do not affect any of the stakeholders in a negative way. The McDonald’s is the leading global foodservice retailer with more than 30‚000 local restaurants serving 52 million people in more
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One of the most controversial issues that has been widely debated over the last 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:
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The impact of social performance - Unilever and its environmental responsibility Unilever is one of the world largest multinational companies‚ merged by British soapmaker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie in 1929‚ which is related with lives of over two billion people every day mainly in the area of food and beverage‚ home care and personal care. The corporate purpose of Unilever indicates that they require "the highest standard of corporate behavior towards everyone
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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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Corporate social responsibility and financial performance in the Australian context Matthew Brine‚ Rebecca Brown and Greg Hackett 1 The concept of social responsibility of corporations has engendered considerable interest in Australia in recent years. While previous research on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance has largely been based on international data‚ this paper examines the relationship between the adoption of corporate social responsibility and
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33118 Assignment series 1 Problem From gapminder.org we are required to compare the following countries for their economic and social indicators and report salient findings. We have to figure out whether India is a superpower or not. 1. India 2. Pakistan 3. Bangladesh 4. Nepal 5. Sri Lanka Assumptions 1. Year 1947 is taken because three out of the given five became independent around that time with Nepal in 1923 and Bangladesh in 1971. 2. Super-power country doesn’t only have a high
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CHAPTER 1 MA TE RI AL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT TE D YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THE FOLLOWING AFTER READING THIS CHAPTER: GH 1. Describe the key elements in the strategic management process. RI 2. Discuss the three different perspectives or approaches used in understanding strategy‚ including the traditional perspective‚ the resource-based view‚ and the stakeholder view. PY 3. Understand strategy formulation at the corporate‚ business‚ and functional levels. 4
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com/research_registers The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emerald-library.com/ft How important are ethics and social responsibility? A multinational study of marketing professionals Anusorn Singhapakdi and Kiran Karande College of Business and Public Administration‚ Old Dominion University‚ Virginia‚ USA How important are ethics? 133 Received September 1998 Revised March 1999 June 1999 September 1999 College of Administrative Sciences
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AGENCY THEORY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE By Alex Ganas Department of M.B.A At the university of I.S.T / L.S.B.U There has been considerable discussion of managerial agency and firm performance problems that arise from the separation of ownership and control. Economists have long been concerned with the incentive problems that arise when decision making in a firm is the province of managers who are not the firm ’s security holders. The adoption of the agency logic increased during
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The social responsibility concept is based on the premise that business has greater impact on society than can be measured by profit or loss. As a participant in society‚ business should contribute to the human and constructive social policies that guide society. The concept of social responsibility is merely a first step towards social effectiveness of business. It is the underlying value which gives businessmen a sound basis for social action. It is the philosophy which justifies business involvement
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