A A1 Corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company's effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. The term generally applies to company efforts that go beyond what may be required by regulators or environmental protection groups. Corporate social responsibility may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit to the company, but instead promote positive social and environmental
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Sustainability has become one of the key issues within the global lodging industry (Jones et al., 2016). One of the main contributors to the draining of our natural resources is the hospitality industry; sustainability, decreasing the carbon footprint, and cutting down operating costs have all get to be imperative focuses of the industry. Concerns related to the environment problems have increasingly heightened, such as ecological concerns have brought about gradual changes in the consumer purchasing
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term- “social entrepreneurship” has become quite common to describe social initiatives undertaken by individuals or group of individuals which may not be necessarily non-profit. Similar to the ways in which business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs act as the catalysts for change in society, using opportunities others miss out on in order to improve systems, invent and bring to the table new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create a social impact
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain: An Application in the Food Industry Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Sep., 2006) Michael J. Maloni and Michael E. Brown 1.Rezumatul Articolului Lucrarea redactată în anul 2006 detaliază practicile Responsabilității Sociale Corporative aplicate în cazul supply-chainului din industria alimentară a Statelor Unite ale Americii. Printre aspectele cercetate se numără bunăstarea animalelor, biotehnologia, mediul înconjurător, politica
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CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY PAPER. Question: Does Walmart have a corporate responsibility to avoid doing business in countries that are undemocratic, violate human rights, or permit exploitative work conditions even if it benefits those employed by Walmart in that country. In order to understand the reasons why Walmart should care about doing business in undemocratic countries where human rights are constantly being violated, several factors must be taken into consideration. Firstly, the definition
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for the organization using a case study of Primark Contents Thesis Statement 1 Contents 2 Abstract 3 Introduction 3 Analysis 4 Business Ethics 4 CSR 5 Conclusion 7 References 8 Disclaimer: 10 Abstract This report discusses corporate social responsibilities and business ethics in the case of the Rana Plaza collapse. In April 24, 2013 the Rana Plaza factory in Savar district of suburb Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, where death tolls reached 1129. Those were garment workers for outsourced
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Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Apple Inc is known world-wide because of the quality of the products it produces. This is a primary reason why its sales have remained high. The mission of Apple Inc is to ensure that it remains socially responsible to the community it serves in addition to persuading the supplier store comply with socially ethical issues. The mission expresses the commitment of the company in implementing corporate social responsibility activities, apart from providing
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XXXX utilitarian, ORIGINAL XXX International Publishing Management theories IJMR 2007managerial and relational Reviews of corporate social responsibility © Blackwell Journal of Ltd 2007 1460-8545 Oxford, UK ARTICLES Blackwell Publishing Ltd Utilitarian, managerial and relational theories of corporate social responsibility Davide Secchi Concepts and theories of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have been examined and classified by scholars since the mid-1970s. However, owing to the evolving
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laws, they are regarded as artificial persons, notionally owned by shareholders, but they exist independently (Schneemann 2013). According to Friedman (1970), a business’s social responsibility is only to increase profit. This statement can be seen as a starting point in the CSR school of thought, and nowadays, corporate social responsibility is becoming significantly important. Businesses are more powerful, global, transparent, seeking for a competitive edge, and under pressure from powerful governmental
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The finding is that management’s role is to have efficiency and productivity while maintaining ethical practices. Ethical theories are then used to look at the social, environmental and economical impacts of the Canadian industry. It is concluded that each ethical theory presents a favorable solution to each impact. Social corporate responsibility is evaluated in the last ten years in Canada and around the globe. It is found that the industry has become one of the most safety-conscious industries
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