Explain with examples what is meant by Corporate Social Responsibility and discuss why it is important to modern business In today’s world‚ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been one of the topics that every company must be concerned with. It is usually viewed as a legal obligation for every company to create social benefits alongside with the profit gains (Peng and Meyer 2011‚ p.297). CSR is a crucial factor for our society and environment. If there is no campaign to encourage us to
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Firms’ Performance?1 Laura Poddi2 Sergio Vergalli3 July 28‚ 2008 Abstract In the last two decades in the OECD countries there have been a raising development of firms certified as Social Responsible (CSR is the acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that the behaviour of a certain firms environmentally and sociologically correct. Some papers (among others Preston
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Role of Higher Educational Institutions in Corporate Social Responsibility By Ms. Susan Abraham Assistant Professor‚ SCMS School of Technology and Management‚ SCMS Campus‚ Muttom‚ Aluva ’ 683106 Email: susan2112@gmail.com Phone: 9495114276 Abstract Higher educational institutions in India have been contributing to the knowledge base of our country. They have been enrolling students at the rate of 10 percent in the year 2007. Privatisation of these institutions has brought in
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“focusing on profit alone can create an unfavorable paradox that causes a firm to fail to achieve its objective” (Ferrell‚ Fraedrich‚ & Ferrell 2009). Company Q’s social responsibility is on a downward trend. Because Company Q took a gamble operating two stores in higher-crime-rate areas and lost‚ their current attitude toward social responsibility is comparable to stock trading: cut your losses and move on to more profitable ventures. This may seem logical from a profit-making perspective‚ however it
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Archie Carroll’s View of Corporate Social Responsibility 1 By Rodolfo Arango Archie Carroll’s hierarchical chart depicting the four components of his view on corporate social responsibility is sketched out as a pyramid for ease of use and understanding. The pyramids wide base‚ and the foundation of this theory‚ represents “economic responsibility” the basic building block for a positive corporation. This layer of the pyramid makes the distinction that it is the responsibility of an organization is
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IntroductionFor the past 27 years‚ Carroll’s corporate social responsibility pyramid (CSR) has been widely used by top management and journals to better define and explore CSR. The different components in the pyramid help managers see the different types of obligations that society expects of businesses. It is easily understandable and simple. However‚ the new challenges faced by corporations in the 21st century have warranted a re-examination of Carroll’s pyramid. Carroll’s CSR PyramidCarroll’s
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Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field presents a scene of speculations as well as a multiplication of methodologies‚ which are dubious‚ perplexing and vague. This article tries to illuminate the circumstance‚ "mapping the domain" by characterizing the primary CSR speculations and related methodologies in four gatherings: (1) instrumental hypotheses‚ in which the organization is viewed as just an instrument for riches creation
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Journal of Business Ethics (2009) 88:119–132 DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9825-x Ó Springer 2008 Chinese Consumers’ Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Bala Ramasamy Mathew Yeung ABSTRACT. The findings of this article increase our understanding of corporate social responsibility from the consumers’ perspective in a Chinese setting. Based on primary data collected via a self-administered survey in Shanghai and Hong Kong and results of similar studies conducted in Europe and the
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Bendigo Bank and Corporate Social Responsibility While Bendigo Bank maybe just another financial institution trying to return profits to its shareholders‚ there is something uniquely distinctive about Bendigo Bank that really does differentiates from the other major banks. It doesn’t take much looking around to find that Bendigo Bank is heavily involved with local and rural communities focusing extensively on corporate social responsibilities. It markets itself as the community bank but are their
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ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH TOPIC ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INSTITUTE LIAQUAT COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT AND SCIENCES SUBMITTED TO KARACHI UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED BY SYED ARSALAN IMAM SUPERVISED BY SIR ZEESHAN BABER CLASS BS VIII COURSE TITLE PROJECT REPORT COURSE NUMBER BA (H)-622 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I offer my humblest thanks to ALMIGHTY ALLAH‚ The most Beneficent and the Most
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