Coca-Cola’s Water Neutrality Initiative 1. The public issue that the Coca-Cola Company was facing is this case was its impact on its water use in local communities. The company was depleting local water reserves and introducing dangerous levels of pesticides in its products in and around its global plants. I feel that the nonmarket stakeholders were the ones most concerned by this public issue in the beginning. The global leaders (government) understood that the depletion of the world’s water
Executive Summary Today, water is a critical natural resource that challenges us at local, national and global level. We are facing water shortage and drought to floods and declining of water quality. More than 1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water (Lawrence & Weber, 2011, p. 43). Especially in the developing countries, with poor water management it contributes to increasing malnutrition and disease, a losing of biodiversity and agricultural production, rising food prices
Running head: COCA-COAL’S WATER CONSERVATION PROJECT Coca-Cola’s Water Conservation Project and the Influence of Stakeholder Engagement Abstract This paper discusses the case, Coca-Cola 's Water Neutrality Initiative, found in Lawrence and Weber (2011), describing the growing public issue that the Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) faced in the 2000s. TCCC was criticized for its excessive use of water and the ever-growing problem of water shortage throughout the world. With water being an
Coca-Cola May 17, 2013 I. Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility is the 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
Coca-Cola's Water Neutrality Initiative Lanisha Ennis MBA 520-Ethics &Leadership in a Global Environment Professor Joe Limas Benedictine University July 2, 2017 Abstract Stakeholder engagement and dialogue are imperative to successfully solving any issue that a company may incur in its operations or other processes. Without engagement and dialogue with stakeholders, a company may miss valuable insight into how to approach an issue and may also alienate stakeholders who are essential to the success
Office Hours - BUS 344 TUES/THURS: 10am – Noon Office Hours - BUS 344 TUES/THURS: 10am – Noon Denise Kleinrichert, Ph.D. San Francisco State University email: dk@sfsu.edu Seminar – Business & Society (BUS 682) Fall 2013 – Tuesdays Course Objectives: This course emphasizes the theories and practices of the ethical, social, environmental, political, and legal aspects of business decision-making and leadership