...Corporate Social Responsibility Kristina Zinatulina Business and its environment Stephanie Day January 25, 2013 Introduction I would like to start with the definition of Corporate Social Responsibility. It is an organization’s commitment in making ethical choices which consider people, environment and other issues. In my country, Russia there are many companies which have it. Personally I think that Corporate Social Responsibility is a very important activity nowadays. I want to write about “Gazprom”. “OAO Gazprom” is a global energy company. It has many activities such as exploration, production, transportation, storage, processing and marketing of gas, gas condensate and oil, as well as the production and sale of electricity and heat. “Gazprom” is a very important company and it has many stakeholders around the world, but the main stakeholders are the one from Russia and post-Soviet countries. On the 29 December 2006, “Gazprom's” main shareholders were: Russian Federal Agency for Federal Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) - 38.373% ,”Gazprombank “- 41.235% ,”Rosneftegaz” - 10.74%, “Gerosgaz”- 2.93% and “E.ON Ruhrgas” - 2.5% .The Russian government controls 50.002% of shares of “Gazprom” through “Rosimushchestvo”, “Rosneftegaz”, and “Rosgazifikatsiya”. “Gazprom “owns the richest natural gas reserves in the world. Its share of the world's gas reserves is 18 %, Russian – 70%. “Gazprom” has 15% of the world biggest gas productions reserves and 78% of Russian gas production...
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...TITLE PAGE Case study analysis AZA2040 - Issues, crises and social responsibility. Analyse and critique issue identification and management in a case study Done by: Fungai Dingani Contents Page 1. Issues and crises 3 2. The issue development lifecycle 3 3. DESTEP and SWOT analysis tools 5 3.1.1 Strengths of DETI 5 3.1.2 Weaknesses of DETI 6 3.1.3 Threats of DETI 6 3.1.4 Opportunities of DETI 6 3.2.1Demographic Macro environmental factors affecting DETI 6 3.2.2 Economic Macro environmental factors affecting DETI 7 3.2.3 Political Macro environmental factors affecting DETI 7 3.2.4 Social Macro environmental factors affecting DETI 7 3.2.5 Ecological Macro environmental factors affecting DETI 8 4. Importance of Issue management 9 5. Reference List 10 Identify some of the negative issues within DETI as highlighted in the case study. Start your discussion by defining an issue and in so doing, discuss the difference between an issue and a crisis. Use academic references to substantiate your points. (20) An issue could be described as a focused conflict or an occurrence that is in a dispute that develops gradually between an organisation and another party such as a stakeholder between them and develop into an opinion in differences between them. it usually boils up from a discrepancy in expectations and decisions between a company and its various stakeholders (Sellnow & Seeger; 2013)...
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...Predictors of Corporate Social Responsibility* Ülle Übius, Ruth Alas Estonian Business School, Estonia, Tallinn 10114, Lauteri 3 The purpose of this paper is to investigate connections between corporate social responsibility and organizational culture types. The survey was conducted in Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Czech, Finnish, German and Slovakian electric-electronic machine, retail store and machine-building enterprises. The main aim of the study is to find connections between corporate social responsibility and different organizational culture types. According to Cameron and Quinn (1998), culture defines the core values, assumptions, interpretations and approaches that characterise an organization. Competing Values Framework is extremely useful in helping to organize and interpret a wide variety of organizational phenomena. The four dominant culture types – hierarchy, market, clan and adhocracy emerge from the framework. According to Strautmanis (2007), social responsibility is part of organizational culture and a value in the organizational culture environment. Development of social responsibility is a change in values orientation, whose task is shaping the attitudes, transformation of the personal position so that it matches individual and public interests. Different organizations have framed different definitions about corporate social responsibility - although there is considerable common ground between them. Nowadays corporate social responsibility is an integral...
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...Selected Thesis Topics for BScBA students Bachelor´s Thesis 2013-2014 Please use this list of the fields of International Business for thesis work and potential thesis topics when choosing and informing us the field of your thesis + the thesis topic in the form Indication of Interest Area for Thesis 2013-2014. Part 1. Thesis topics for companies and other organizations We have first listed the thesis projects that are available to do for companies and organizations. If you are interested in these projects, please mark the topic to the Indication of Interest Area form the same way than any other topic. It should be noted that the students selected to do the thesis from these topics must be motivated and committed for the work. Please do not contact these organizations yourself before the selection process has been completed for all students. More information on topics can be asked from Mari Syväoja or Tomi Heimonen. Organization: Thesis Biofenno projects for (www.biofenno.fi) companies and organizations Selected Thesis Topics for companies and organizations Internationalization plan Plan how to take and promote product Tuovi Tuotevirtakirjanpito to EU markets. Tuovi Tuotevirtakirjanpito is a stock and feed recording program for organic farmers. It produces necessary stock and feed reports for annual inspection. Also stock balance reporting benefits farm managements. Because Tuovi Tuotevirtakirjanpito complies with all the regulations EU has set for organic farmers, it has...
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...328). Global codes/standards were developed by many international organizations individual corporate codes,with hopes that other companies will implement. Secondly, ethical elements of global corporate activity should be considered into the formulation of top-level strategy and its implementation along with corporate social policy integrated into strategic management (Carroll, 2012, p. 329). Furthermore, companies must be particular in their selection of its contractors and the countries where their goods are produced. This is to make certain that the products that are being produces are done so in a manner in accordance with the values and reputation of the organization (Carroll, 2012, p. 331). Lastly, there are audits and impact statements which make an effort to assess moral justifications for corporate actions and the subsequent results of those actions. Accountants have an ethical responsibility to promote an ethics based culture that prohibits unethical activities such as bribery. Steps to prevent corruption include high-level commitment by top management; upper level manement and leaders must exhibit an ethical attitude and approach and lead by example, creating appropriate orgaorganizational culture. Secondly, statements of policies...
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...ABSTRACT The purpose of this project is to determine multinational corporate sustainability within the oil industry and perform country analysis, industry analysis, and analysis of firm’s international strategies. INTRODUCTION The five oil companies that we chose from the 2010 Global Fortune 500 are ExxonMobil, Sinopec, ConocoPhillips, Petrobras, and Lukoil. In our project, we performed analysis on the 10K report of domestic companies, as in ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips and the 20F report of foreign companies, as in Sinopec, Petrobras and Lukoil. A comparison was done on the five companies to determine if there exists a corelation between sustainability perspective and financial performance. OIL INDUSTRY ANALYSIS Oil accounts for a large percentage of the world’s energy consumption, ranging from 32% for Europe and Asia, and 53% for the Middle East. The world consumes 30 billion barrels of oil per year, with developed nations being the largest consumers. The United States consumed 25% of the oil produced in 2007. In 2009, world energy consumption decreased for the first time in 30 years (-1.1%), as a result of the financial and economic crisis (GDP drop by 0.6% in 2009). This evolution is the result of two contrasting trends. Energy consumption growth remained vigorous in several developing countries, specifically in Asia (+4%). Conversely, in OECD, consumption was severely cut by 4.7% in 2009 and was thus almost down to its 2000 levels. In North America, Europe and CIS...
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...TIMBERLAND’S MODEL OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TIMBERLAND’S MODEL OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Timberland is a manufacturer of rugged outdoor boots, clothing, and accessories. Founded in1918 in Boston by an immigrant shoemaker named Nathan Swartz, the company has been run for almost a century by three generations of the Swartz family. Today, the company sells its product in department and specialty stores as well as in its own retail outlets in North America, Europe, Asia, South Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Although the company was taken public in 1987, the Swartz family and its trust and charitable foundations continue to hold about 48 percent of Timberland stock. The company’s mission embodies a strong social responsibility theme “: to equip people to make a difference in their world. We do this by creating outstanding products and by trying to make a differene in the communities where we live and work.” In 1989, Timberland was approached by City Year, an urban service corps, for young people, with a request for a donation of boots. Jeff Swartz, a grandson of the founder and CEO, said yes and agreed to join the corps for half a day of community service. Swartz later described his experience: I found myself, not a mile from our headquarters…face to face with a vision [of] America not unlike the one that drew my grandfather to leave Russia in steerage so many years ago. I spent four hours with the corps members from City Year and some young recovering...
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...Company Overview 22 7 Business System 24 7.1 Resource Base of Lindt & Spruengli 24 7.2 Activity System (Value Chain) of Lindt & Spruengli 26 7.3 Product Offering 28 7.4 Lindt’s positioning in comparison to Competitors 33 8 Organizational Structure 34 8.1 Organisational Process 35 8.2 Organisational Culture 36 9 SWOT Analysis 37 10 Recommendations 38 10.1 Exposing the Corporate Social Responsibility 38 10.2 Product Development to meet upcoming consumption trends 38 10.3 Market penetration in Spain 40 10.4 Penetration of Emerging Markets 41 10.4.1 Asia Pacific 41 10.5 Entering new Segments 43 10.6 Pushing profitable Product Lines 45 11 Bibliography 47 11.1 Books 47 11.2 Documents from Databases 48 11.3 Journals 50 11.4 Websites 51 II List of Figures Figure 1: Confectionery industry segmentation 5 Figure 2: Market value of the confectionery market in the period 2004-2009 and the expected growth until 2013 6 Figure 3: Stage of industry life cycle mature markets (Western Europe, North America) and immature markets (Middle East and Africa, Eastern Europe, India, China, Russia) 10 Figure 4: Growth rate of the global confectionery sales by region in the period 11 2007/2008 and forecast for the period 2008-2013. 11 Figure 5: Global confectionery market share by value 12 Figure 6: Strategic groups of the confectionery industry 13 Figure 7: Sales in million CHF and change in % in the period 2005-2008 14 Figure 8: Resource Base of Lindt & Spruengli 15 ...
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...examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and business organizations as a whole. Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions in many fields such as medical, technical, legal and business ethics. Business ethics can be both a normative and a descriptive discipline. As a corporate practice and a career specialization, the field is primarily normative. In academia descriptive approaches are also taken. The range and quantity of business ethical issues reflects the degree to which business is perceived to be at odds with non-economic social values. Historically, interest in business ethics accelerated dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, both within major corporations and within academia. For example, today most major corporate websites lay emphasis on commitment to promoting non-economic social values under a variety of headings (e.g. ethics codes, social responsibility charters). In some cases, corporations have redefined their core values in the light of business ethical considerations (e.g. BP's "beyond petroleum" environmental tilt). Business comprises principles and standards that guide behavior in the world of business. Stakeholders-investors,...
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...Instruction on the Group Project Principles of Management Each project group is expected to collectively write a case report that focuses on an ethical issue faced by a real-life organization, a specific industry, or a business profession. Following is a suggested outline for the case written by your group: I) Background Information (e.g., corporate history) II) The Central Ethical Dilemma(s) III) Alternative Ways to Deal With the Ethical Dilemma(s) IV) Possible Consequences and Implications of Alternative Solutions V) Ethical Theories That Are Applicable to This Case VI) Key Questions for Case Study When writing this case report, you are encouraged to gather as much relevant information as possible from various online and offline data sources. However, all the information used in your case analysis must be properly cited in the main body of your report, including the author name(s) and publishing date/year, if available, and the detailed citations must be included in the References section. Your case report will be graded on the following criteria: 1) Proper application of ethical theories 2) Quality of writing (readability, originality, grammatical correctness, etc.) 3) Breadth of information utilized (at least 20 different articles or books need be cited and actually used in writing this case) 4) Demonstrated critical thinking skills 5) Robust logical reasoning 6) Comprehensive data analysis (i.e. taking into...
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...The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Ioannis Ioannou London Business School George Serafeim Harvard Business School Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on several measures of socially responsible management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee training become a higher priority for companies, and that corporate governance improves. Furthermore, we find that companies implement more ethical practices, reduce bribery and corruption, and that managerial credibility increases. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law enforcement and more widespread assurance of sustainability reports. We conclude with thoughts about mandatory sustainability and integrated reporting. Keywords: sustainability reporting, mandatory reporting, corporate social responsibility, integrated reporting Assistant Professor of Strategic and International Management, London Business School, Regent’s Park, NW1 4SA, London, United Kingdom. Email: iioannou@london.edu, Ph: +44 20 7000 8748, Fx: +44 20 7000 7001. Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Soldiers’ Field Road, Morgan Hall 381, 02163 Boston, MA, USA. Email:gserafeim@hbs.edu, Ph: +1 617 495 6548, Fx: +1 617 496 7387 (contact...
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...real estate overheating that was experienced after Cyprus was admitted into the European Union in 2004, risks were relatively contained by tight loan-to-value ratios (1:1, where EU average 1:67). By the time it joined the euro area, Cyprus had already in place strict liquidity regulations and macro-prudential measures. Significant part of Cyprus economy and financial sector was formed by high % of FDI that was stimulated by the strategic location of Cyprus, easy market access to Europe, Middle East and CSI Countries, low corporate tax of 10%, existing 45 double taxation agreements, social and economic stability, repute as a international shipping and financial center, well‐established legal, accounting, and banking services, advanced telecommunications network, availability of educated, qualified, and multilingual workforce, and low crime rate. Additionally Cyprus was considered as a hub for money laundering from different parts of the world (mainly, Russia) Greece crisis affected several economic indicators (i.e.unemployment, inflation) that signalized need for change in economic policies and/or activities. 2. List and briefly discuss 2-3 key reasons (from the perspective of your group) which were the most important in the downfall of banking system of Cyprus! * With the crisis...
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...Kellogg’s Business Strategy Strategic management is extremely important for the development and expansion of organizations. It is the science of formulating and achieving short-term and long-term objectives. Kellogg’s business strategies involve the following: • Product Innovation, strengthening its target market and accelerating growth • Global expansion of convenience foods/snacks • Sustainable Growth: Environment • Foster a work environment with a talented and dedicated workforce • Be a trusted provider of great tasting, safe and high quality products to consumers • Promote corporate responsibility to communities • Reinforce the idea of healthy lifestyle for population Product Innovation, strengthening its target market and accelerating growth The Main strategy for any company is product innovation, strengthening its target markets and accelerating the rate at which it grows. The tactics Kellogg’s uses to achieve these objectives are introducing new premium line of cereals which are favourable to the community needs and also investing heavily in research and brand building. Global expansion of convenience foods/snacks Kellogg’s strategy for global expansion into new food markets include increasing their penetration into new distribution channels. They also focus on strengthening their brand image as this makes foray into new global markets easier. Sustainable Growth: Environment One of Kellogg’s main strategies is to protect and conserve natural resources...
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............................................. 2.1 Single European Act 1986................................................... 2.2 Benefits and costs............................................................... 3. EU Policies................................................................................... 3.1 The free trade policy............................................................. 3.2 Global Market........................................................................ 3.2.1 NAFTA & MERCOSAR................................................. 3.2.2 APEC........................................................................... 3.2.3 EU Vs Global Markets................................................. 4. Corporate Social Responsibility....................................................... 4.1 CSR and BP- Olympics in London; 2012..................................... 4.2 BP vs. the Consumer.................................................................. 4.3 Russian takeover with sex parties............................................. 5. Environmental policies.................................................................... 5.1 Kyoto protocol and the EU........................................................ 5.2 The EU and the environment.................................................... 5.3 BP and the environment............................................................ 5.3.1 Breath of fresh air..............................................
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...a premium quality brand, so there is the possibility that some of this brand attribute may be diluted with its connection to Kraft as it was acquired by the global food company in 2010. Threats The company faces increasing costs in all aspects of the supply chain, including energy for manufacturing, transport, raw materials and ingredients and packaging. Cadburys faces competitive pressure from other brands in the confectionary market, which has led to price wars and more aggressive marketing tactics. Environmental pressures demand that the company be transparent in its activities and present information on its corporate social responsibility initiatives to ensure environmental awareness, fair trade for cocoa, and equitable treatment of all employees around the world. Cadburys will need to be more specific in what it is doing or it may lose brand equity. Social changes, including issues with diabetes,...
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