NIKE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT Introduction Background: Nike is the leading company in sports and fitness fields and located near Beaverton‚ Oregon (CSRwire‚ 2012). In 1998‚ The New York Times exposed that Nike paid workers in China and Vietnam less than two American dollars a day. The aim of this report is to search how Nike response Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Theory: There are five dimensions of corporate social responsibility: physical environment‚ social (community)
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Citigroup Mini Corporate Social Responsibility Evaluation Corporate social responsibility has become a hot term in the past few years as corporations have become larger and even more powerful. Watch-dog organizations have been formed to monitor the actions of corporations and report “rogue” companies who do not mean their standards for being socially responsible. Recently‚ many companies have started to issue corporate social responsibility reports along with their annual reports. Citigroup
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Corporate social responsibility 1 Introduction Is Corporate Social Responsibility only a splendid expression or also of fundamental importance? This introduction is devoted to define this term on an objective level. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) applies to efforts of companies which go beyond what is required by the environment. Companies take responsibility for their environment and also for the impact on social welfare. The costs which can be caused by CSR promote usually positive
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Corporate Social Responsibility Task 1 To find out about corporate social responsibility I researched 3 separate businesses the first being the join Lewis partnership which includes Waitrose (a food retailer) and John Lewis (a department store). They have 336 stores located in the UK which are co-owned by every member of staff. The partnership makes on average £9.5 billion a year. They state that corporate social responsibility has been a cornerstone of their business right from the Partnership’s
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The phrase “Corporate Social Responsibility” originates with H. Bowen‚ who wrote “Social Responsibility of Businessmen” in 1953. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is broadly used to describe businesses’ integration of social and environmental issues into decisions‚ goals‚ and operations. According to World Business Council for Sustainable Development “Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Textile Industry International overview Michiel van Yperen Amsterdam‚ 2006 IVAM research and consultancy on sustainability Roetersstraat 33 - 1018 WB Amsterdam - Postbus 18180 - 1001 ZB Amsterdam Tel. 020-525 5080‚ Fax 020-525 5850‚ internet: www.ivam.uva.nl‚ e-mail: office@ivam.uva.nl I N T E R N A T I O N A L O V E R V I E W C S R I N T H E T E X T I L E I N D U S T R Y 1 Contents 1. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) 2 1.1 Introduction to
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The Body Shop is an organization with Social Corporate Responsibility concept. Besides providing high quality beauty products‚ they considering the social responsibility to make a positive difference in the world. This ethical behavior beauty company founder actually is a social and environmental activist who works on the basis of being a business model of positive social change named Dame Anita Roddick. The Body Shop support the Social Corporate Responsibility by campaigning on domestic violence‚
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1.0 Description of Initial Response Responsible business normally is known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In today’s world‚ most businesses are focusing on profitability ignoring all social responsibility they should contribute back. It is important for companies to gain trust from the community in return of CSR. Three major personal core values that I think a ‘responsible business’ should have are empower‚ professionalism and commitment. First of all‚ when a company able to empowering
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Arguments against Corporate Social Responsibilities. As we have seen there are a lot of advantages of using Corporate Social Responsibilities‚ however there are points of view that CSR makes negative affect on the company. We will try to explain main disadvantages about CSR below. Some companies are using CSR‚ only because they want to show the seriousness of the business and care about service or product that they produce‚ but in fact they not really carrying about the way the product come to
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CASE 9 Daryl Benson NIKE: Managing Ethical Missteps—Sweatshops to Leadership in Employment Practices Phil Knight and his University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman founded Blue Ribbon Sports‚ later renamed Nike‚ in 1964. The idea‚ born as a result of a paper written by Knight during his Stanford MBA program‚ was to import athletic shoes from Japan into the U.S. market otherwise dominated by German competitors Puma and Adidas. The company initially operated as a distributor for
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