CSR as Social Obligation Over the last century‚ many scholars tried to conceptualise CSR and its management applications. Bowen (1953) was the first to launch the concept of CSR as a social obligation. According to him‚ CSR is a social obligation “to pursue those policies‚ to make those decision‚ or to follow those lines of action which are desirable in terms of objectives and values of our society”. Carroll (1979)‚ following Bowen’s thinking‚ identified four stages of CSR development: economic
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Private Equity and Investment Banking SPRING 2010 Summit Partners FleetCor A 1. Summarize the proposed transaction: Summit Partners proposes to FleetCor Technologies (later preferred as “FleetCor” or the “Company”) an investment into FleetCor for the total amount of $44.9 million in return for a post transaction ownership of 54.2% in the “Company” and coming down to 46% ownership in the company after newly created stock options for management equivalent to 15% ownership in the company has
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INTRODUCTION Bangladesh is the ninth largest economy in the world. For smooth monetary transaction there are fifty two commercial banks. Among them Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) is one of the leading multinational bank. SCB achieved the number one position in generates more than 40% of its revenue group while Treasury contributes more than 20% to the overall revenue. The goal of SCB is to be the "Bankers of First Choice." Emerging Markets of Asia‚ Africa‚ the Middle East and Latin America. founded
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Linking Arms towards a Sustainable Future Ayala Land Sustainability Report 2008 Linking Arms towards a Sustainable Future The dream of a sustainable future begins with actions rooted in the present. At Ayala Land‚ we realize that to make a difference‚ the crucial strides towards a sustainable tomorrow must be made today as global warming and environmental problems loom over the horizon. Now is the time to act with utmost urgency and focus for the sake of our children and future generations
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CSR Defined Corporate Social Responsibility is a term that has been around for a while now‚ and has changed its shape as time as gone. Essentially the idea of corporate social responsibility is as it written: the social responsibility of the corporation. However the way in which corporations decide their social responsibility or the way it is measured has been contested for some time. The concepts that corporations are using in today’s world of corporate social responsibility include corporate citizenship
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is mainly about the awareness of and actions in support of environmentally sustainable societal development. Yet to be mainstreamed into corporate practice with a firmed up definition‚ CSR actions aim at mitigating the diverse environmental impact of the activities of the business‚ and at reducing inequalities and alleviating deprivation and poverty in the communities across the country. In the wide range of possible CSR actions‚ each business is expected to
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Dell CSR Company Profile Michiel van Dijk & Irene Schipper Amsterdam‚ May 2007 Dell – CSR Company Profile Colofon Dell CSR Company Profile By: Michiel van Dijk & Irene Schipper May 2007 Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen (SOMO) Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations This document is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivateWorks 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5 SOMO‚ Amsterdam
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University of Agricultural Sciences Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences Department of Economics iiiii Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Theory and Practice in Pakistan Syed Kamran Hameed Master’s thesis · 30 hec · Advanced level Degree thesis No 634 · ISSN 1401-4084 Uppsala 2010 ii Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Theory and Practice in Pakistan Syed Kamran Hameed Supervisor: Karin Hakelius‚ Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Department of Economics
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to convert over 20m garments to Fairtrade cotton; every store has a dedicated "Plan A" champion. The M&S ticker says a lot about the current state of what is commonly known as corporate social responsibility (CSR). First‚ nobody much likes the CSR label. A year ago M&S launched not a CSR plan but Plan A ("because there is no Plan B"). The chief executive’s committee that monitors this plan is called the "How We Do Business Committee". Other companies prefer to describe this kind of thing as "corporate
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CSR Gap Analysis of the GAP Gap Inc prefaces their 2004/5 CSR report with the question: what is a company’s role in society? Their answer is that a company ‘only realizes its full potential when it embraces its role as a global citizen’. This raises two interesting points; the first is that the answer to the question ‘what is a company’s role in society?’ will be conditioned by normative assumptions about business/government relations in a firm’s country of incorporation. David Detomasi
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