The social responsibility of business: Why is it stigmatized?
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Energy costs can represent 15-20% of total expenses or even the raise in the product's cost for some businesses. This is especially true for companies producing steel, cement, sugar, paper and fertilizer. Energy is used in the form of coal, oil, gas and water. A major concern for these...
Business ethics and social responsibility - published: 14/09/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Business law
Government's role in environmental protection is to establish standards and set regulations on environmental protection and enforce those standards in a method that is unbiased, and according to the guidelines of environmental integrity. Federal policy, first must achieve harmony between the...
Corporate responsibility in the Automotive Industry
Essay - 4 pages - Management
Organizations work for the consumers and claim that they are the ones who make it possible for the generation of goods and social benefits. On the other hand consumers are of the opinion that organizations exist because of consumer endorsement. Organizations would not be possible had it...
The political influence on organization decision making towards corporate social responsability: a socio economic approach
Essay - 30 pages - Economy general
This research will look at the political influence on organization decision making towards social responsibility. To do so, a combination of social and economic theories will be used. In chapter three, the political field and the political actors in this research will be...
What Does it Mean for a University to be Socially Responsible?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Educational studies
What does it mean for a university to be 'socially responsible'? With reference to the literature and using examples from the UK, and beyond, discuss how a university might demonstrate its commitment to social responsibility to its stakeholders. Corporate...
Corporate Strategy - Megabrew: Creating an Undisputed Global Brewing Champion?
Case study - 29 pages - Business strategy
In the case study "Megabrew", "Creating an Undisputed Global Brewing Champion?" as the subtitle, the significant characters of the mergers and the acquisitions are explored within the context of the brewing industry. From a strategic point of view, this evaluation reviews megabrews using...
Corporate Sustainability
Essay - 3 pages - Management
Corporate sustainability refers to a new way of management, it is an alternative to the traditional growth and profit-maximization model. Corporate sustainability focuses on both growth and profitability as much as the social and environmental impact and goals toward...
Corporate Strategy, Pernod Ricard : analysis and scenarios
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
In this case study, we will discuss and try to understand how the French group Pernod-Ricard is evolving in its global environment but also inside the group itself. They are the 2nd world liquor distributor; therefore, we will take into account their strengths but also potential weaknesses and...
Can socially responsible firms increase their profits? - The case of 'The Body Shop'
Case study - 63 pages - Management
Corporate Social Responsibility is a topic of prime importance that has been doing the rounds for long. Since the 1960s, social responsibility has become an important argument not only for business but in the context of law, politics and economics. In fact, in...
CSR Analysis; the Samsung Company
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
The Samsung Company has published code of conduct that states that the company complies with all laws and ethical requirements of all countries in which it operates. The chief executive officer's commitment t upholding these ethics is not clearly defined in the company's sustainability report....
Analysis of Sony Corporation
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Today's business environment is rapidly changing prompting organizations to have agility towards change direction and speed their responses to dynamic macroeconomic elements. Grounding operations for efficiency and existing strategies is not enough for organizations to thrive given the...
META Platform Incorporation (Facebook)
Case study - 6 pages - Digital & e-marketing
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is deeply ingrained in META's mission of positively impacting society and making the world more open and connected (Taulli, 2012). META is committed to fulfilling its ethical obligations by distinguishing between good and...
Societal marketing concept - Discussion on the different ways by which organizations can become more ethical and socially responsible in their marketing activities
Thesis - 7 pages - Services marketing
Consumers have shown an increasing interest in ethical issues over the last few years. Consequently, ethics has become particularly relevant in marketing, as it represents the interface between the company and the customers. This paper discusses the different ways in which an organization can...
Business issues in the US
Course material - 24 pages - Management
In the early 20th century when faced criticisms or a crisis large, corporations started to end their culture of secrecy and to promote the broadcasting of information towards the public. They relied on journalists, or the used posters, publicity bureaus and press agents to become experts in...
Extra-financial analysis of the LVMH Group
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
This presentation offers an extra-financial analysis of a group with a global footprint: LVMH.
Apple Inc's Ethical Philosophy
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Apple Incorporation has been one of the most iconic business organizations linked to a charismatic, controversial but also founder, Steve Jobs. The current Chief Executive Officer of the company, Tim Cook, has to address issues and challenges faced by the corporation within a highly competitive...
Supplier selection with social and environmental issues
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
Supplier selection is a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which is affected by several conventional conflicting factors such as quality, delivery, service and time. Recently government insists enterprises to take care of environmental regulation and social issues such as...
ESG Reflective Report
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
In an analysis entitled "Risk-return performance of optimized ESG equity portfolios in the NYSE" written by Javier Lopez Prol and Kiwoon Kim and published in 2022, the authors find that High ESG optimized portfolios have lower returns and volatility than lower ESG ones (Prol & Kim, 2022). In this...
Sustainable cocoa sourcing strategies and supply chain - Mondelez International Inc.
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Foreign markets
Mondelez International Inc., the largest chocolate manufacturer in the world and in Europe has committed to cover 100% of its cocoa supply chain with its Cocoa Life Program by 2025 while investing at the same time $400 million in it. This program for sustainable cocoa sourcing is implemented in...
McDonald's: Corporate reputation after criticism of unhealthy food
Case study - 20 pages - Management
McDonald's is a large fast food chain with an international presence around the world. During the last few years, the company has been criticized by customers for offering unhealthy food causing obesity, and for dodgy corporate ethics. This is why we decided to study the international...
Corporate governance and business ethics of Diageo
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
In spite of a global crisis, global businesses are reaching record profits like Exxon. In fact, businesses are more powerful than ever and the biggest ones are even wealthier than some countries (Leonard, 2008; Johnson et al., 2006). The power of these corporate influence policies and...
Mattel faces its social and environmental responsabilities
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
Today's business organizations constantly face internal and external pressures in addressing their social and environmental responsibilities. Since the 1960s, the society has expressed growing expectations for more responsible management of companies through the incentive of the...
SWOT Analysis - The space tourism market
Case study - 5 pages - Tourism marketing
Major players in the sector today, Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic), Jeff Bezos (BlueOrigin), Elon Musk (SpaceX), are now familiar names when it comes to space tourism. All of them have the ambition to democratize access to space with, however, some subtle differences in their respective...
Start-ups and the business of personalization of textiles and advertising objects in France
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
Start-ups are, unlike SMEs, based on an activity that has great growth potential. Within this very attractive sector, the world of advertising is not to be outdone. Indeed, the use of articles or advertising objects is a fast-growing market that is experiencing growing interest from start-ups....
What do executives have to do in order to create a moral corporation?
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
What is morality in corporation? By definition, morality is the “principle concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior”. In corporations we can apply this definition to the interactions between employees but also toward the company's objectives. In...
Corporate governance and business ethics: Air France-KLM
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Businesses have to publish their yearly Corporate Social Responsibility Report (CSRR) for their stakeholders. CSRR is “the business contribution to the sustainable development goals. Essentially it is about how business takes account of its economic, social and...
Tesla strategic and marketing analysis
Case study - 8 pages - Automotive marketing
Placed into heliocentric orbit in February 2018, a spacecraft called the "TESLA roadster" now revolves around the sun. In fact, it is a classic first-generation TESLA car, a symbol of the megalomania of one man Elon Musk, the richest on our planet. This excess is to mark its omnipotence in the...
Financial Market and Sustainable / Green Finance
Dissertation - 18 pages - Finance
In April 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report focusing on the mitigation of climate change. The experts underline the emergency of a new way of life in order to limit global warming to 1,5°C. To respect the agreement taken during the COP 21, the IPCC proposes...
Prevention of psycho-social risks at work
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Management
France is a dangerous country! This sentence might seem shocking, yet the surveys and studies conducted by various international and European institutions show that the highest numbers of deaths occur in the country. The indicators on stress and suicide rates are in red. If the figures presented...
Case Study - GoPro
Case study - 4 pages - Brand management
GoPro was founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman, a snowboarder, skier and motorsport enthusiast looking for a better way to film himself and his friends on the water. The idea, which started with a 35 mm camera and a wrist strap made from old diving suits and bits of plastic, grew into the...
