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    Chapter I: Introduction 1.1 Background Corporate social responsibility according to Henderson (2001) can be defined as the commitment of organizations to help society by improving working and living conditions of employees, their families, and the community as a whole. The use of CSR as a discipline has its foundation on past centuries, when some kind of social awareness was practiced by companies at the time, nevertheless most authors concur that from the 1960’s onwards, the developmental

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    Social responsibility is the accountability of companies for the contacts of its results along with actions on civilization and the surroundings, through crystal clear and ethical performance with the purpose of gives to continue progress together with the strength and the benefit of people. The truth so as to the expressions itself has tainted above this point also recommends that the significance qualified to perception for example, corporate social responsibility will maintain to progress in

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    perspective who sees little value to corporate social responsibility. The third is the international firm approach. This is when a firm is influenced on how corporate social responsibility is viewed and implemented by the country its head offices are located. The first three approaches are all multinational corporations that are influenced by centralized strategic management, in which where the head offices are located determines the corporate social responsibility throughout the firm. The fourth organizational

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    Corporate social responsibility has two parts. First, CSR means a company should seriously consider the impact of its actions on society. Second CSR, requires that a company or individual be responsible for how their actions impact the society. Walmart is a corporation that some can defend does display CSR, while other can defend that it does not. Walmart was the epitome of what a retail chain store should be. Sam Walton took what he learned from the JCPenny model and transformed it into something

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    CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY : A REPORT ON HOTELS (a) Introduction Sales, consumer purchases fundamentally have always remained informed by quality; price and convenience but there had been a big change towards responsibly produced commodities. For example the demand in all of Europe for fair trade goods had raised from 51% in 2008 to almost 79% in 2012, consumer awareness for ethically produced commodities has also substantially risen. (Goff, 2012). Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

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    Volvo in Corporate Social Responsibility. Avinash Adapa(1678167) Prof Eleni P.Mylonas EPS 8R Fairleigh Dickinson University DATE: 09-27-2014 Abstract Corporate Social Responsibility means their responsibility towards the community and the environment (both in ecological and social)

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    CSR stands for Corporate Social Responsibility. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is defined by many groups like, Tata steel, Coca Cola, Reliance, Videocon etc. Although they all stand for similar meanings connecting to taking responsibilities of the society as a business individual, its definition has been getting broader from a established point of view, corporate social responsibility is a type of business instruction included in a business demonstration. CSR policy functions as a self-regulatory

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    We examine firms’ use of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as one of their business strategies after a rise in public responses, has led to heightened corporate action. We find that firms are taking more corporate action due to more public scrutiny and fear of financial loss. We find there is an abundance of definitions of CSR but whilst they are all coherent, not one of these definitions is applicable to every industry. With further research, it is highlighted that it would be difficult to increase

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    Rachael Pritchard MGT 465 Debate # 1 Not in favor of CSR Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility is essentially the idea that corporations should and have the responsibility to act outside of their own interest of profits and interest of shareholders. That a majority of the responsibility to fix economic, environmental, and social issues somehow weighs more heavily on corporations shoulders than our own. I am not in favor of this notion for several reasons to which I will

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    to address social responsibilities. This is only certain truth to this statement as the world we live in now is evolving. People in the current era are more concern about social responsibility especially with corporations and their behaviours and plans. There is an increasing demand on businesses to have a “social conscience” and taking serious responsibility for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, ethical working environment and whatever else is related to having a “social conscience”

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