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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Chen Xi
Su Wei
Mei Han
Zhao Wei
Wang Mo
Li Yinghan
Tse Lai Sze

Q2. 1. What are the main ethical issues for Professor Ballistico?
Ethics is concerned with the study of morality and the application of reason to elucidate specific rules and principles that determine right and wrong for any given situation. Some of the controversy regarding business ethics is no doubt due to different understandings of what constitutions morality or ethics in the first place. In this case, Ballistico is a professor who is conducting a research and has come to some new findings. According to his professions, he should be honest and objective to his research and it is his responsibility publishes the results as what it originally was to enable the …show more content…

People’s lives are increasingly controlled and shaped no longer by governments but also by corporations. For example, the liberalization and deregulation have given more influence, liberty and choices to private actors.
For government, the corporations share the burden, for example, unemployment rate can be affected also by the conducts of corporations. As a result, the government can use their money more freely to benefit the society.

Limits: The involvement of the corporations brings more risks which require government to establish more laws and require more self- regulations.
The government may lose the power on significant issues and may gradually at a weaker state than before. What’s more, social issues can be easily separated from governmental controls.

Q3
Caroll’s model
CSR includes the economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic expectations placed o organizations by society at a given time.

The key is when it comes to a “pyramid”, the base is important before one climbs to the top – “philanthropic”. Although in India / China, the corporations are expected to “share” their wealth by focusing on charitable donations, the most important issues for CSR is whether it is right/enough in doing so -- has it met the expectations of the public or the world; has it taken account of all its stakeholders in different levels?

In terms of economic responsibility, all of the companies in the Satyam Fraud case, earn huge profits in

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