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
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should not be the only goal for business; benefiting society should also be considered. In other words, a company should have the awareness of a certain social responsibility to regulate its behavior which might endanger the public good and promote the development of society. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to the ethical responsibilities of a modern corporation with its positive impacts on the environment, customers, employees, communities and society are considered a guiding principle
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adjustments; Nike is working on improving its company image. Nike used traditional advertising methods to broadcast its product. Nike public relations tactics dealt with the wage policy, visiting campuses on universities, personal letters, corporate responsibility and using celebrities as spoke person for its product. Nike launch campaigns regarding child labor, low and non- existent wages. Nike believes that the U.S dollars were meaningless because the cost of living was different in other countries
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Individual Case Study In recent decades, Corporate Social Responsibility has become one of the major areas of concern to corporations and the question, “Are companies moral agents?” is quite a debatable question among various thinkers. With the raised level of awareness of consumers regarding the impact of corporate activities on environment and society at large, corporations are obliged to put serious efforts towards execution of environmental, social and ethical procedures in their actions (Lombardi
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Corporate and Social Responsibility Author’s Name Institutional Affiliation The idea of Corporate Social Responsibility is becoming popular and is meeting support worldwide in recent decades. By Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) we understand a set of long-term strategies, actions and policies that aim at contributing to the society and environment where the company is operating. The companies have a lot of power, in fact. It is especially obvious when we talk about huge multinational
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Studies on Corporate Social Responsibility: Do Conflicts Affect a Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility Policy? Cristina A. Cedillo Torres, Mercedes Garcia-French, Rosemarie Hordijk, Kim Nguyen, Lana Olup* 1. Introduction 1.1. Background and objectives This article will discuss the different Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues that emerged within four multinationals (Apple, Canon, Coca-Cola and Walmart). There is no clear definition of CSR. In Corporate Social Responsibility
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the Legitimacy, Stakeholder and Institutional theory with the reporting requirements from a number of standards, guidelines, initiatives and indices. Empirical Foundation The empirical material consists from Corporate Social Responsibilities reports that were available through banks websites. The sample contains three Greek banks. The primary focus was to include banks from one country in order to ensure that they operate under the same legal framework. Conclusions
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Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained an increasingly high attention in recent years. CSR can be defined as the ways in which businesses align their values and behaviors with their various stakeholders such as employees, suppliers, customers, government and other societal interests on whom their operation may have an impact. The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Dubai government and the UAE has always been present from the earliest Islamic times, with people
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Samsung – Stages of Corporate Citizenship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as part of business strategy has shown increased prominence in contemporary business world. On a daily basis the roles corporations play in society are scrutinized by the media who constantly lookout to report on scandals, corporate misbehavior or, the positive contributions businesses have on society (Crane, 2008). Induced by this, corporations are facing increasing pressure to legitimate their practices and take
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should identify where the various functions of management sit in terms of being upstream, downstream, neither, or both, and how developments in technology may affect these functions in the next 10 years.) 2. social innovation and networking, (You should undertake an analysis of the social innovation based opportunities that have / might develop for a newly internationalised company, like Elecdyne in different sectors (e.g. health and education) over the next 10 years.) 3. sustainability and
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