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Report Maps the Attitudes and Influence of Stakeholders on Corporate Social Responsibility
Responsible consumerism | Manila Bulletin
"Capitalism has evolved in at least three different forms: corporate capitalism, speculator’s capitalism,
and, most recently, creative capitalism."
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The multinational manufacturing giants were trying to cope with changes in technology and demographics which threatened to make them obsolete.
Top managements in publicly owned US companies, regardless of size and performance, cowered under the threat of the corporate raider and his ultimate weapon, the junk bond.
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Corporate capitalism promised that the large corporation would be run in the interests of the greater number of stakeholders. Instead, it was being pushed into a subordinate role – away from its market standing, its technology, and its basic wealth-producing capacity and into immediate earnings and next week’s stock price. A Marxist would call this turn of events “speculator’s capitalism.”
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Mmm, mmm good -- at social responsibility | delawareonline.com | The News Journal
"Campbell has a presence in 120 countries with such brands as V8, Pepperidge Farm, Goldfish crackers and Franco-American sauces. Last year, it ranked second among American companies perceived by the U.S. public as the most socially responsible, according to the Corporate Social Responsibility Index of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and the Reputation Institute."
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Campbell has a presence in 120 countries with such brands as V8, Pepperidge Farm, Goldfish crackers and Franco-American sauces. Last year, it ranked second among American companies perceived by the U.S. public as the most socially responsible, according to the Corporate Social Responsibility Index of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and the Reputation Institute.
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At Wharton, Stangis focused on an enduring challenge for corporate responsibility professionals: building and maintaining support within one's own company, especially in a recession, when indiscriminate do-gooding will invariably raise eyebrows among cost-conscious colleagues.
Value Destruction: The Cost to Companies That Engage in Deceptive Marketing - Knowledge@Wharton
Outed! Will Obama Meet the Real FACES of Coal or Exposed Big Coal Front? | CommonDreams.org
Mallen Baker's Blog - CSR is dead - part 412
If the author's comments are correct, then CSR should have been a corporate responsibility from day one. However, corporations are responding primarily to external pressure.
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"CRS" it said - always a giveaway when they can't even spell CSR - "and corporate survival in a time of economic calamity are not natural allies. If survival means stoking up the blast furnace and letting pollutant clouds cover the world, the world is going to lose".
Right. I see. That makes perfect sense. If times are tough, let's be inefficient and generate pollution. If times are tough, let's alienate the local communities where our workforce live. And if we're motivated by survival, let's destroy the environmental life support systems on which all life depends. Glad you explained that to me.
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