Marks and Spencer don’t just exist for profit. They also hold a lot of responsibility too.
(Fisher C and Lovell A, 2009, p311)
Issues to stakeholders
Affect M&S reputation or its future existence
Environment issues

1) what are the corporate responsibility and sustainability issues faced by M&S?
- I have defined corporate responsibility
- I have said that it (corporate responsibility) can be affected socially e.g. charity events and used examples in Plan A that M&S have done
- I have then defined sustainability, and I have gone onto talking about environmentalism and the risks of waste and global warming followed by what M&S have done in plan A in relation to this

Virtue Aristotle- often easy for us to assess. Have to see what is generally accepted as being the right thing for a person/retail organisation. Limitations are that a society at any particular time mat not have a clear picture itself of what is right (and proper) and what is wrong. Times in the past where societies have accepted and encouraged practices we would now regard as very wrong. Its easy to find out what is right and proper now – only have to look at the law or newspapers or look at guidance given by international authorities, but society can have a mistaken view.

Duty ethics Immanuel kant – what matters is the motive. The idea of doing the right thing because it is a duty or a principle. Motive of ethical behaviour being the thing that mattered. Why were you doing it? Were you doing it purely because it is right? A duty or a principle. If you were doing a good thing for another reason, because you were trying to be nice or kind, sympathetic or felt sorry for them. This would not be the right thing. It is only right if you are doing it from duty or principle. It was a categorical imperative if done right, ie. It was an absolue ethical must do at all times. Way to