Journal of Business & Economics Research – June 2012 Volume 10‚ Number 6 The Effect Of Internal Control On The Operating Activities Of Small Restaurants Linval Frazer‚ College at Old Westbury‚ State University of New York‚ USA ABSTRACT Researchers have found that more than 67% of restaurants fail within the first 3 years of their operation. These findings underscore the restaurant industry’s current crisis of profitability and survivability. The industry’s average profit is generally
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Corporate Social Responsibility Definition 2 What is CSR? a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model process with the aim to embrace responsibility for the company’s actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment‚ consumers‚ employees‚ communities‚ stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere to aid an organization’s mission as well as a guide to what the company stands for 3 a titled What is sustainable
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CSR and globalization Corporate social responsibility is at least in its name and formal recognition a relatively recent phenomenon. Yet‚ owners and managers of firms have engaged in activities that we would now consider CSR almost from the beginning of the industrial revolution (Davis‚ Whitman and Zald‚ 2006). But‚ until the 1990s‚ CSR was generally limited to corporate philanthropy. It is from the early 1990s that enlarged concepts and practices of CSR have come to the fore. What drove these
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Paper ARCHIE CARROLL’S CSR PYRAMID: A case study of Bajaj Auto Ltd. ZAMAN ALI 20091063 B.A.LLB (2009) Jindal Global Law School Today‚ in this complex business environment where all business enterprises are surviving by realizing maximum profits possible‚ there exists a mechnism called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that is providing the required edge towards success. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the way a corporation
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| | IKEAMGT301 CSR Case Study Report | | Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Company History and Overview 3 Vision‚ Objective and Values 4 Meaning of Sustainability to IKEA 5 CSR Issues and Criticism 6 Why IKEA sought to address the issues through CSR 12 How IKEA sought to address the issues through CSR 13 The Natural Step 15 Public Response 17 Cultural Change Within IKEA 18 Evaluation of the Strategic Element of IKEA’s CSR Practice 22 Conclusion
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in the execution of their eight key CSR initiatives which are inline with millenium development goals suggested by United Nations in 2000. To make certain CSR remains a top priority for the business‚ they have developed strong CSR management structures and systems. Social‚ environmental and ethical issues are also incorporated into the Vodafone risk management processes. CSR-related policies were agreed to at the UK Policy Committee‚ chaired by the CEO. CSR-related issues are also a regular agenda
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Responsibility in Pharmaceuticals Industry. Criticism and Evidence. 10 Corporate Social Responsibility Activities of Roche Finland 12 Conclusion 13 Introduction In this assignment we will discuss the topic of sustainability and we will apply it to Roche‚ one of the leading global pharmaceutical companies. We will first discuss what sustainability is and stands for by looking at the three components; social‚ economic and environmental sustainability. After that‚ we will describe what Roche
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1. The modern organizations have two main approaches toward internationalization. Either the first born global where these organizations are international from their inception or the organization is rapidly internationalized due to demand for the unique product/service. The second is the stage approach to internationalization this focuses on stages that the organization moves through to reach multinational enterprise MNE status. The movements through stages are influenced by “strain from growth
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achieve high economic growth the governments normally welcome foreign investments. Also‚ multinational corporations (MNCs) are seen by the governments of developing countries as an important source of employment opportunities and provider of advanced technologies. The facts that rapid economic development is often accompanied by the deterioration of the environment and that some MNCs make use of the often relatively lenient standards of environmental control in the host countries are often overlooked
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corporate social responsibility (CSR) by examining six sets of factors conventionally considered as promoting outcomes consistent with core principles of social responsibility: intra-organizational factors‚ competitive dynamics‚ institutional investors‚ end-consumers‚ government regulators and non-governmental organizations. Each factor is addressed conceptually‚ empirically‚ and with respect to its likely future significance in promoting outcomes consistent with CSR. Our overall conclusions are not
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