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    Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility is define as intended actions of an organization that changes its company process to operate in an society, environmentally and feasible way which affect the community development and human rights. Corporate Social Responsibility programs aim to provide value to the society while at the same time improve an organization’s reputation and leading to success. In practice this can apply to an extensive of actions that organization could

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    Social Responsibilities and Moral Character of Business Milton Friedman was a 20th century American economist who advocated free-market capitalism. In 1970 he submitted an editorial article entitled “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits” to the New York Times. In the article, Friedman argues that in free market systems it is nonsensical to make corporate entities adhere to “social responsibilities of business” pushed by activists, as corporations are artificial in nature

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    ‘Realism or idealism? Corporate social responsibility and the employee stakeholder in the global fast-foot industry’, written and published by Tony Rolye in January 2005, who is an expert in international and comparative employment relations. This article concentrates on how corporate social responsibility is now on the global agenda and how multinational corporations are being urged to address issues based on ‘Stakeholder democracy’ . Tony Royle mainly focuses on McDonalds and their distaste against

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    Using this as the basis of their operations, corporate alertness is increasingly being given to corporate social responsibility philosophies. Most business organization thus work on the idea of maximizing the positive effects of their operation on the society as the negative impacts of these operation are minimized - Farrell and Fraedrich (1997). This is the thrust of corporate social responsibility as considered an obligation among businesses in the advanced societies of the globe. Oko & Agbonifoh (2014)

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    area of corporate social responsibility, which contains extensive content referring to workers, customers, environment, and community. This essay will compare and evaluate corporate social responsibility of ExxonMobil and Shell in the criterion of safety, sustainability and education. Safety is more than only a priority, but a core value and an integral part of the culture in ExxonMobil and Shell.

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    In Friedman’s article, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profit, he gives two arguments for what, if any, social responsibilities a business has and why they have it. In his arguments, he presents a businessman in charge of running the business on behalf of the owner. The first point he raises in dictating what responsibilities the businessman should fulfill involves defining the businessman’s purpose. He was hired as an agent of the shareholders, the owners of the business

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    2. Social responsibility in stakeholder theory 3 2.1 Why social responsibility? 3 3. Limitations 4 4. Case study examples: Starbucks & Nike 4 5. Conclusion 5 6. References 6 7. Appendixes 9 Appendix A 9 Appendix B 10 1. Introduction This report focuses on social responsibility issue focusing on stakeholder theory. Social responsibility will be introduced and defined based on stakeholder theory. Next, analysis on the importance and limitations of social responsibility will

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    The social responsibility has lots of argument, and some economists, such as Milton Friedman, don’t support it because they said it will effect on the profit and revenue, and the money they spend it on the society most, invest it in other projects that have a value, and it will make some money for the firms. On the other hand, there are economists that support it, and they think when firms invest some money in the society and make it better, and it will appear on the firm’s performance, and here

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    Why are personal responsibilities more important than social responsibilities? People have a lot of ups and downs in their life. Sometimes they are happy while they are doing what they like, or they are stressed of circumstances that arise in their life. They are always looking for ways to find the balance around them. As a result, they plan different strategies to help improve the quality of life, so they start working on themselves by being more responsible for their actions and helping others

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    Corporate Social Responsibility Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is part of the reality of doing business. CSR is also known as corporate science, corporate citizenship or responsible business. CSR is important for both business as well as society. CSR is all about how a company is able to show and manage its positive impact on the society. CSR is able to earn its own name in the world of business. The importance and significance of Corporate Social Responsibility is increasing

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