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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387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors‚ including governments‚ consumers‚ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe‚ relying
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Corporate Social Responsibility World Business Council for Sustainable Development defines Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as “The continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large.” Simple definition: Seriously considering the impact of the company’s actions on society. PERSPECTIVE ON CSR
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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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Course Name: International Management Unit Code: BUS323C Assignment Name: Case Analysis Report: The Last Rajah_Ratan Tata Number of Words: 2‚066 (Excluding title page‚ Contents Page and References) Due Date: 22 Feb 2012 Local Lecturer: Dr. Rudolph Jürgen CONTENTS PAGE |No. |Description |Page No. | |1. |Introduction
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relevant models. (15) 2. How does power effect in decision making for Corporate Social responsibilities. Kindly discuss one such initiative in details. (15) ****** Political Views Affect Firms ’ Corporate Social Responsibility‚ Study Finds ScienceDaily (Sep. 19‚ 2008) — A new study in The Financial Review establishes a relationship between political beliefs of corporate stakeholders and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of their firms. Companies with a high CSR rating tend to be located
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Corporate Social Responsibility: What Went Wrong at GlaxoSmithKline? When London-based GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) paid a $750 million dollar settlement as part of a plea agreement that required it’s Cidra‚ Puerto Rico subsidiary SB Pharmco to plead guilty for knowingly selling contaminated medicine‚ it laid to rest any doubts that its business practices were in direct conflict with its commitment to both quality and to creating a strong ethical culture. There are‚ nevertheless‚ important issues
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Business Ethics: A European Review Volume 20 Number 1 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
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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. Explain the difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning. CO 5. Characterize and explain the key players in the lodging and foodservice industries. 2 CHAPTER 1 ■ STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
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Explain how Social Responsibility’s conceptions of freedom‚ morality and duty differ from those of libertarian theory. Which theory fits your understanding better and why? Firstly‚ social responsibility gives enough freedom to the media. However‚ expect it to act responsibly in its news report‚ act as watchdog to the society. Secondly‚ social responsibility theory mainly leads itself in a free circumstance of media area but there is a limitation to show its duty. Social responsibility requires the
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