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Transcript of Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility
© Robert Jones 2010, 2013
[email protected]://www.cambridgemba.wordpress.com
Business
1 For what is it responsible?
2 How can business be responsible?
3 To whom is it responsible?
Plato (circa 380 BC)Virtues: those things that enable humans to function well as humans.
Function of a knife is to cut. A sharp edge allows it to perform this function well. So, a sharp edge is the virtue of a knife
What are particularly human functions? virtues are – courage, wisdom, temperance, justice
Relativism Values are different. They are relative to, for example, cultures, times, places, individuals.
PluralismThere is no one single moral theory or principle that should be accepted as preferable to others. There are different, diverse, and even mutually inconsistent ethical positions that should be recognised; and there is not necessarily any single moral principle or set of principles that everyone should accept.
The Chain of Corporate Governance
Exhibit 4.2
Source: Adapted from David Pitt-Watson, Hermes.
Johnson and Scholes (2005), Exploring Corporate Strategy
Strengths and Weaknesses of Governance Systems
Exhibit 4.3a
Source: Adapted from T. Clarke and S. Clegg, Changing Paradigms: The transformation of management knowledge for the 21 century, HarperCollins Business, 2000, Table 6.5, p. 324.st
Johnson and Scholes (2005), Exploring Corporate Strategy
Strengths and Weaknesses of Governance Systems
Exhibit 4.3b
Source: Adapted from T. Clarke and S. Clegg, Changing Paradigms: The transformation of management knowledge for the 21 century, HarperCollins Business, 2000, Table 6.5, p. 324.
Johnson and Scholes (2005), Exploring Corporate Strategy
Some questions of corporate social responsibility
Exhibit 4.8a Johnson and Scholes (2005), Exploring Corporate Strategy
Some questions of corporate social responsibility
Exhibit 4.8b Johnson and Scholes (2005), Exploring Corporate Strategy
3 P triple bottom line
People, planet, profit
John Elkington (1995) at SustainAbility
adopted as the title of the Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell's first sustainability report in 1997.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5C_ccgp8ZI
Tim Smit (social entrepreneur) and the Eden Project
http://www.edenproject.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmFXBp5GVUk&feature=related
Tim Smit (founder of the Eden Project) on “Kick-starting the sustainable economy”
Creating Shared Value
by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer (2011),
Harvard Business Review
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrsjLA2NGTU
Blowfield & Murray (2008), Corporate Responsibility: A Critical Introduction
Johnson and Scholes (2005), Exploring Corporate Strategy
Ferrell, Hirt & Ferrell (2008), Business: A Changing World
http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5C_ccgp8ZI
Porter M.E. and Kramer M.R. (2011), Creating Shared ValueHarvard Business Review