Amanco Sustainability Strategy Abbas Ibrahim OCT 18, 2015 1. Is the Amanco strategy an example of corporate social responsibility or corporate self interest? Amanco Strategy is an example of corporate social responsibility. Amanco, part of the Nueva Group based in Costa Rica, produces and markets piping for irrigation construction, infrastructure, and industry in 13 countries of Latin America. The company’s vision is “to be recognized as an organization that creates economic value by operating
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Global supply chain management Lecture 1: chapter 1 and 2 Overview Course and Supply Chain Management & Logistics A supply chain encompasses all activities associated with the flow and transformation of resources into goods and services and related flows of information. In this lecture, various nodes in a supply chain are treated. It will be explained in which ways flows of materials and information in supply chains can be managed. Logistics is defined as a part of the supply chain process
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Plantersbank has the honor of being one of three banks in the world cited in a paper presented at the Harvard Business School Conference on Global Poverty for its strong "double bottom line," an approach that combines profitability and pursuit of social development projects. Now, Plantersbank defines its framework for a triple bottom line approach by combining profit, social returns, and environmental management and fair practices on equal and equivocal terms. STRATEGIES: 1. Plantersbank chairman
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A COMMONER’S PERSPECTIVE There are numerous words today that connote what most of the world knows as Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR: Corporate Conscience, Corporate Citizenship, and the like. This is testament to the importance that it has garnered as businesses worldwide have progressively expanded their scale and scope. CSR is in essence a self-regulating mechanism that is integrated into a business model; hence the term ‘responsibility.’ This policy
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Questions 1. How does Toyota's approach to social responsibility relate to the three concepts of social responsibility described in the text (profit responsibility, stakeholder responsibility, and societal responsibility)? beyond Toyota seems to flip the order of the three concepts of social responsibility. Since Japan is a high-context culture, where social responsibility is a key precept, it is no surprise that Toyota’s core principle (“to contribute to society and the economy by producing
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food safety activists. Ventria needs to overcome the regulatory environment and manage its stakeholder relations in order to succeed and release this product for sale. In order to do so they must establish a strategic plan to improve their triple bottom line performance. They need to convince stakeholders that the potential benefits are desirable and that they can safely and responsibly deliver the product to be commercialized. Even then, Ventria and the biotechnology industry might always face
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Regional Strategy Final Exam Professor Robles Jin Won Jeong Dec 12, 2014 1. Regional Strategy: According to the readings for session #1, a very few multinationals are truly global. a. What are the bases for the claim that most multinationals are regional? The primary bases for the claim that most multinationals are regional are first the extraction of revenue by many “global” multinationals is confined to a region as opposed to the entire world, and second the similar market environment
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social entrepreneurship trends. Studies suggest entrepreneurs post success possess common traits, suggesting traits can be acquired. With these strong traits, entrepreneurs have the potential to produce substantial change on all levels of the triple bottom line. Profitability is equally as important to both commercial and social entrepreneurs. However, it is where they funnel their profits and their driving forces that differ. With so many social issues globally, there are a myriad of social entrepreneurship
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métodos difiere entorno el tamaño, la ubicación y el objetivo que cada compañía tiene con los programas de sostenibilidad. Los métodos más usados por las compañías alrededor del mundo son dos: el método “Triple Bottom Line” y el sistema de evaluación de generadores de valor. El método “Triple Bottom Line”, o TBL, esta enfocado hacia la revisión de los resultados en la inversión sobre tres dimensiones, la economía, la sociedad y el ambiente, y como éstos se relacionan hacia el cumplimiento de los objetivos
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sustainable thinking - the emergence of sustainability as corporate strategy, and making sustainability an integral part of a company’s business strategy in order to obtain the bottom-line benefits .But, this is requires a dramatic changes in the organizations’ performance against the economic, social and environmental (triple) bottom lines , and paying more and more attention to their values and responsibility .Sustainability is also necessitates the transformation of mindset and commitment of the leadership
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