Overview of ITC ITC was incorporated on 24th August 1910 under the name Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited. Progressively‚ as the Company ’s ownership Indianised‚ the name of the Company was changed to I.T.C. Limited in 1974. As ITC has a wide range of businesses such as Cigarettes & Tobacco‚ Hotels‚ Information Technology‚ Packaging‚ Paperboards & Specialty Papers‚ Agri-business‚ Foods‚ Lifestyle Retailing‚ Education & Stationery and Personal Care - the full stops in the Company
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contribute to the company’s vision ‘to be the standard against which others are measured’. Central to the running of these units are the values of M&S. These include quality‚ value‚ service‚ innovation and trust. Each business unit develops its own CSR strategy based around the brand value of trust. The issues tackled in the strategies are identified from a combination of customer research‚ understanding within the business and by talking with other key stakeholders‚ NGOs‚ government etc. For each
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CSR Over the last two decades‚ the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted considerable attention academic circles as well as in practice. CSR has been the subject of much researched and one of most intensely debated issue among scholars and practitioners (Mcdonald and Thiele‚ 2007; Yeh and Li‚ 2009; Mandhachitar and Poolthong‚ 2009; Maignan and Ferrell‚ 2005; Dincer and Dincer‚ 2012; Barone‚ Mizaki and Taylor‚ 2000). The benefits of companies engaging in CSR activities
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Csr in Apple Inc. Table of Contents 1 Executive Summary 2 CSR Background 2.1 Definition of CSR 2.2 Evolution of CSR 2.3 Emergence of CSR 3 Literature Review 3.1 Carroll’s CSR Pyramid 3.2 Purpose of the firm and how that shapes views on CSR 3.3 Arguments for and against CSR 3.3.1 Arguments Against 3.3.2 Arguments For 3.3.3 Summary of the key debates 4 Methodology 5 CSR at Apple Inc. 5.1 Apple’s profile 5.2 Reasons to engage in CSR 5.3 CSR policies at Apple Inc. 5.4 Type of CSR approach
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of the vodafone group 1.0 INTRODUCTION This report presents an in-depth business; strategic analysis of Vodafone Group Plc.The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company‚ including strategy formulation‚ strategy planning‚ strategy evaluation and selection as well as strategy implementation. This will involve in investigating the organization’s external environment‚ to identify Opportunities and threats it might face‚ and its strategic capacity‚ capabilities to isolate key strengths
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4. CSR in SMEs It is important to know how CSR is defined and understood by SMEs; lots of research has been carried out in relation to how CSR is viewed by large firm but research about CSR in SMEs are very few and limited‚ this fact shouldn’t take away the enormous importance in understanding how CSR is defined‚ understood and undertaken by small firms‚ after all‚ as stated by the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (2012) small to medium-sized firms account for about 90 percent
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members of the public sphere who may also be considered as stakeholders1‚ we prepared this summary to review the key Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues arise from this investment. In this summary‚ we will also provide suggestions and solutions to XYZ Company we will also provide suggestions and solutions to XYZ Company for better fulfillment of its CSR. Plantation and Sourcing Since XYZ Company has global supplier relationship and owns plantations in both China and Guatemala. The company
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This paper aims at explaining the overall importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by explaining the theoretical basis of the triple bottom line concept (TBL). This concept assumes that sustainable development can only be achieved by simultaneous implementation of environmental‚ economical and social objectives. Furthermore it will contain a brief comparison of two companies with different CSR strategies. The Koninklijke Philips N.V. will be used to explain the social criteria of the
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share. By dominating the market‚ Baidu becomes one of the most successful IT companies. . However‚ by applying Carroll’s three dimensions model of CSR with combining stakeholder management approach into the corporate social performance assessment‚ it is questionable to say whether Baidu is qualified to be a good corporate citizen. As Baidu’s CSR report doesn’t reveal the most critical issues or related solutions‚ such as censorship and key word bidding promotion system. By implementing four
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CSR AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Corporate social responsibility (hereinafter CSR) has become one of the central issues on the agenda of organizations today‚ but is still a long way from being a centre stage on corporate strategy (Smith‚ 2003; Stewart‚ 2006). One of the key problems is the lack of understanding about the impact CSR has on competitiveness (Porter and Kramer‚ 2006). There are many studies trying to analyze the relationship between CSR and financial performance (Chand and Fraser
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