A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy By Dina Gerdeman 28 MAY 2012 RESEARCH & IDEAS : http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6994.html Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company ’s effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. CSR may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit
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Corporate social responsibility is the duty of a corporation to create wealth in ways that avoid harms to‚ protect‚ or enhance societal assets. The idea of Social Responsibility interrelates the obvious interrelationship between business corporations‚ government and American society‚ is based on the fundamental idea that the corporations have duties that go beyond carrying out their basic economic functions in a lawful manner because the overall performance of a firm is to maximize the social benefit
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International Journal of Management Reviews (2010) DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2370.2009.00275.x The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Concepts‚ Research and Practice ijmr_275 85..106 Archie B. Carroll and Kareem M. Shabana1 Director‚ Nonprofit Management & Community Service Program & Robert W. Scherer Professor Emeritus‚ Department of Management‚ Terry College of Business‚ University of Georgia‚ Athens‚ GA 30602‚ USA‚ and 1 Assistant Professor of Management‚ School of
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and its significant social and environmental impacts. Part Two: Critically evaluate the nature and degree of the company’s responsibilities in relation to each issue. To do so‚ arguments should explicitly draw upon the theories outlined in class – e.g. the various ethical theories‚ institutional and stakeholder theories. For each issue‚ you may draw upon a variety of theories – i.e. present a number of analyses of the nature and degree of a firm’s responsibilities‚ each of which draws
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387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors‚ including governments‚ consumers‚ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe‚ relying
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and it can be anyone from an honorable politician to a soldier defending his nation. These citizens can be identified by how they behave and participate in their society. But I consider an honorable individual that one whom plays his role and responsibilities as a citizen and goes beyond. Is that individual who proves himself and to others his true care and love to his country by fulfilling his obligations to his family‚ friends‚ society and by helping others in need without expecting anything in
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The question‚ I learned‚ is harder to answer than you might expect‚ principally because most corporate do-gooders approach their social good efforts with more of an eye toward impact on the community than on the firm. With some effort‚ however‚ I’ve pulled some meaningful responses from corporate leaders I’ve reached and learned a great deal in the process. Garratt Hasenstab‚ Director of Sustainability at the Verdigris Group Garratt Hasenstab‚ Director of Sustainability at the Verdigris Group
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Literature review concerning corporate social responsibility‚ green marketing and greenwashing M32MKT – Contemporary Issues in Marketing Coventry University Word count : 2396 28 October 2014 It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that‚ you’ll do things differently – Benjamin Franklin ABSTRACT This literature review identifies different topics in CSR while discussing them with case studies. The first section
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Since childhood‚ we have been taught about responsibility. Until there comes a time that we all have responsibilities that we must own up to. But‚ what we already have a sense of responsibility for all the things we have done? The answer is may be yes or may be no. So‚ what is the meaning of responsibility? Responsibility is the obligation/consequence to bear and do something that is given/assigned to everyone with awareness from ourselves. As a student‚ in order to reach my life success I must
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Maruti extends corporate social responsibility initiative to shop floor Rica Bhattacharyya‚ ET Bureau Mar 5‚ 2013‚ 05.00AM IST Tags: SY Siddiqui| Maruti Suzuki India| Maruti Suzuki| Gurgaon| graduate engineer trainees| e-parivartan| corporate social responsibility| anti-malaria campaign (As part of the initiative…) MUMBAI: Maruti Suzuki India‚ the country’s largest carmaker‚ is extending some of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to associates
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