Lesson 1&2 Flashcards
is a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis.
Corporate Social Responsibility
“There is no reason to think that shareholders are willing to tolerate an amount of corporate non-profit activity which appreciably reduces either dividends or the market performance of the stock”.
Hetherington states:
Corporation are part of?
Society
*every large corporation should be thought of as a social enterprise; that is an entity whose existence and decisions can be justified insofar as they serve public or social purposes.”
Dahl
________ is all that matters
Profit
Who says “There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and adventisement engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
Milton Friedman
Drucker had the opinion that:
“business turns a ______ problem into economic opportunity and economic benefit, into productive capacity, into human competence, into well -paid jobs, and into wealth.”
social
CSR is __________
conditional
The three basic principles
Sustainability
Accountability
Transparency
____________ is concerned with the effect which action taken in the present has upon the options available in the future.
Sustainability
__________ is concerned with an organization recognizing that its actions affect external environment, and therefore assuming responsibility for the effects of its actions.
Accountability
______________, as a principle, means that the external impact of the actions of the organization can be ascertained from that organization’s reporting and pertinent facts are not disguised within that reporting.
Transparency
Resources that are _______ in quantity would require alternatives to fulfil the functions currently provided by these resources. Sustainability implies that society must use no more of a resource than can be regenerated.
Finite
The utilization of _________ _________ as part of its production processes
natural resources
The enrichment of local community through the creation of _________ opportunities
Employment