BUSINESS AWARD FINALIST 2011 Shangri-La is a Hong Kong-based luxury hotel group operating 69 properties in Asia, the Middle East, and North America, with 30,000 rooms and over 41,000 staff members. CASE STUDY Launched in 2007, Shangri-La’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy centres on six primary topics: environment – climate change mitigation; local community support programmes; conservation and biodiversity projects; environmental management systems; employee engagement and well-being;
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WHAT IS CSR? WHAT CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY? IS 8 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS JULY 2002 21ST CENTURY CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: ADVANCING FAMILY PLANNING AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH W HAT IS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY? 8 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS JULY 2002 CATALYST Consortium is a USAID-funded family planning and reproductive health activity focused on working in Asia and the Near East, Europe and Eurasia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Composed of five
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General Circular No. 21/2014 No. 05/01/2014- CSR Government of India Ministry of Corporate Affairs 5th Floor, ‘A’ Wing, Shastri Bhawan, Dr. R. P. Marg New Delhi - 110 001 Dated: 18th June, 2014 To, All Regional Director, All Registrar of Companies, All Stakeholders Subject: - Clarifications with regard to provisions of Corporate Social Responsibility under section 135 of the Companies Act, 2013. Sir, This Ministry has received several references and representation from stakeholders seeking clarifications
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decisions are made? Are shareholders the most important to consider, or is it the customer? Should a company simply meet the required regulations, or attempt to go above-and-beyond the requirements? All of the questions involve corporate social responsibility. Corporate Social Responsibility can be defined as “the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local
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issue of corporate social responsibility has got a lot of attention in the business and political world since the early 1990’s and the major reason behind this was corporate scandals. Organizations had started to realize that the basis on which they were achieving economic growth was unsustainable and hence there was a need to develop a process which would intend at balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability and societal expectations. In fact the origin of corporate social responsibility
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decisions to ensure it tackles environmental issues head on. This attitude took the potentially damaging situation of Nikes association with sweatshops and the perceived exploitation of factory workers and ensured it was a leader in the field of corporate social responsibility. This again reflects well on the Nike brand. Nike has focused on what it good at, being creative, innovative and cutting edge in the development of their products and the subsequent marketing of these products, and has outsourced
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Journal of Business Ethics (2009) 88:351–366 DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9968-9 Ó Springer 2008 Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Ratings by Spanish Listed Firms Carmelo Reverte ABSTRACT. The aim of this paper is to analyze whether a number of firm and industry characteristics, as well as media exposure, are potential determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure practices by Spanish listed firms. Empirical studies have shown that CSR disclosure
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customers’ needs and wants was far from in reach. This caused a tremendous number of trade-offs between economic efficiency and social progress. The theory creating shared value was designed to bring a balance between business organizations, customers and the health of the communities. There was a great need to make sure that all the different connections between social and economic views would dominate the new ideals in economic growth and capitalism. Capitalism is an unparalleled vehicle for
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do reflects a commitment to the highest standards of personal and corporate ethics” (Emerson). They stand by these words very closely as well, Emerson is committed to their employees and treats them with respect and honesty. I believe this is all true Emerson also makes it a point as well to maintain good ethics policies with their distributors, customers and suppliers. The work hard to keep up on their CSR (corporate social responsibility) by ensuring there disposing of wastes and recycling
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Carlos M. Montanez 14-028 Answers to application lessons 4 through 7. Chapter 4 – Concluding case 1. What do you think Custom Coffee & Chocolate’s mission is? The mission of Custom Coffee & Chocolate (CC&C), is to provide the finest quality possible of coffee and chocolate to their customers so they can indulge. 2. Create a SWOT analysis for Custom Coffee & Chocolate. Strengths * Formal Education - Both, Bonnie and Stacy had formal education in management and marketing;
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