of Business Ethics and Organization Studies Vol. 12‚ No. 1 (2007) Positioning Stakeholder Theory within the Debate on Corporate Social Responsibility Manuel Castelo Branco Lúcia Lima Rodrigues Introduction The present-day conception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) implies that companies voluntarily integrate social and environmental concerns in their operations and interaction with stakeholders. The European Commission defines it as “a concept whereby companies decide voluntarily
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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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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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Corporate Social Responsibilities Tony Fernandes‚ CEO of Kuala Lumpur-based Air Asia started a low-cost airline at a time when everyone thought he would fail. He placed high emphasis on his workforce and flexible HR strategies. During the past few years‚ Air Asia has become one of the best low-cost airlines in Asia and it has also boosted its CSR efforts. Fernandes’ basic sense of CSR starts with his people: Air Asia was one of the first airlines in Asia to hire female pilots. He says that his staff
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environmental concerns when making business decisions. And this has makes CSR integral to the way of the business related to the world and potential of being success. As there is no universal standard for CSR‚ CSR can be defined by actions such as integrating social‚ environmental and economic terms into business value and actions. One of the examples would be treating the employees from foreign countries fairly as the local employee. Many businesses believe that by implementing CSR activities they will be able
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Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate social responsibility is defined in several ways. Some of which are the following: A concept of business ethics based on the idea that companies have stakeholders who are broadly defined as anyone or group affected by the activities of the company. The idea of CSR is that a company should be accountable to its stakeholders. For this reason the subjects of CSR focus on how companies should identify and “engage” stakeholders and how they should determine
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JR: EXEC ADVISER AUG 10 The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility The idea that companies have a duty to address social ills is not just flawed‚ argues Aneel Karnani. It also makes it more likely that we’ll ignore the real solutions to these problems. By ANEEL KARNANI August 23‚ 2010 Can companies do well by doing good? Yes—sometimes. Journal Report Read the complete WSJ Executive Adviser report . But the idea that companies have a responsibility to act in the public interest
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The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility Dr. Karnani shows in this article from the Wall Street Journal‚ the pros and cons on whether businesses should be required to implement social welfare initiatives. For some companies‚ this idea is a win-win situation but there are other businesses that in order to promote these initiatives‚ they would have to lose profits. The idea of people helping people sounds very good but we have to be realistic‚ we are living in a capitalist country
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THE CASE AGAINST CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY According to my point of view‚ the writer of this article makes a controversial argument against Corporate Social Responsibility. He defines Corporate Social Responsibility as the increasing popular idea. His basic argument against this idea is twofold. First he argued that if profits and public interests are aligned‚ Corporate Social Responsibility is irrelevant. But I think that Corporate Social Responsibility is not irrelevant. The fact that
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Corporate Social Responsibility Hashim Rizwan 250631955 MOS 3353 550 Bill Iwrin Corporate social responsibility can simply be identified as a duty‚ which is not a legal obligation lately‚ under very much consideration by every multinationals‚ as well as the growing firm. The ongoing concern is meant to increase the awareness between the business Individuals‚ to implement and draw line which should clearly indicates that what social obligation an organization has towards the
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