...cLibel Paper Team Front Row MGMT 382 Michael Baumgarden Jonathan Gutierrez McCall Shilling Josh Greene Caleb Ode Firas Zaia Introduction McDonald’s is undoubtedly the largest fast food restaurant chain in the world. At this magnitude, it is important to note that any business decision that McDonald’s makes has great implications for the millions of stakeholders, including the shareholders, managers, suppliers, employees, and ultimately the consumer. This is why it’s imperative that every decision that comes from management carry a high level of ethical planning and execution. This paper will focus on how McDonald’s business model affects the consumer in positive and negative ways. Topics: 1) Food - healthy food and catered to local culture / food unfit for human consumption. 2) Marketing - fun, family inclusive / exploit children and get them addicted to junk food. 3) Economic - creates jobs favoring local consumption / animal cruelty justified by cost-cutting. The next section will detail arguments in favor of McDonald’s practices followed by negative arguments and ending with a conclusion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Argument in favor 1 Cheap food - Mcdonalds stands as a fantastic, time efficient and affordable alternative to families and individuals who do not have the time to create a home cooked meal or do not have the budget for more expensive dining...
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...No. 04-2003 ICCSR Research Paper Series - ISSN 1479-5124 Corporate Citizenship: Towards an extended theoretical conceptualization Dirk Matten & Andrew Crane Research Paper Series International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility ISSN 1479-5124 Editor: Dirk Matten International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility Nottingham University Business School Nottingham University Jubilee Campus Wollaton Road Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom Phone +44 (0)115 95 15261 Fax +44 (0)115 84 66667 Email dirk.matten@nottingham.ac.uk www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/ICCSR Corporate Citizenship: Towards an extended theoretical conceptualization Dirk Matten & Andrew Crane Abstract Corporate citizenship (CC) has emerged as a prominent term in the management literature dealing with the social role of business. This paper critically examines the content of contemporary understandings of CC and locates them within the extant body of research dealing with business-society relations. Two conventional views of CC are catalogued – a limited view which largely equates CC with strategic philanthropy and an equivalent view which primarily conflates CC with CSR. Significant limits and redundancies are subsequently identified in these views, and the need for an extended theoretical conceptualization is highlighted. The main purpose of the paper is thus to realize a theoretically informed definition of CC that is descriptively robust and conceptually distinct from existing concepts in...
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