Socially responsible investing

Target completed its five-year goal for the 2015 fiscal year with some impressive numbers. According to Target (2015), it exceeded its expectations on the following goals: • Increased organic food offerings by 114%. • Improved transportation efficiencies: inbound by 36% improvement. • Improved owned-brand packaging sustainability by 153 packaging designs. • Improved transportation efficiencies: outbound by 26% improvement. • Increased ENERGY STAR® certifications by 76% U.S. buildings certified

Brule, 2008). They claim that CSR is a window dressing activity, which involves little in core decision-making. It concerns at later stages of the external communication process where reputation is best managed and created. There is no doubt that investing in CSR strategy to help the society and the environment can leave a good impression in the mind of the customer. And time passed, accumulative amount of customers can experience the enthusiastic of the business. As a result, a business can build

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a very controversial topic. A question that has been debated for the past few decades is; is it corporately viable to introduce social responsibility as a proposed addition to the work ethic of business organisations. As well as, if adopting the framework of corporate social responsibility would yield positive improvements for those organisations. The purpose of this essay is to research the notion of CSR and uncover its true framework and outline what social

Stakeholder Concerns Investors For most investors, the primary concern is profit on their Calfrac investment. However, a certain group of investors also consider social good as an issue of great importance and as a result, practice social investing. Another major concern for an overwhelming majority of investors is the amount of risk they take on. These investors consider the amount of risk an ownership stake in a company entails and choose not to invest in companies that are over exposed to a single

BP leadership along with partners did not have proper governance and process to evaluate the risk that they are willing to take. The employee at every level does not know how much risk to take nor did any corporate policy exist to guide them. Having zero risk tolerance and zero safety defects in these complex operations ensure there are no human losses. The analysis of the Deepwater Horizon Study Group (2011) (p.11) shows that the leadership was concerned about how much money was spent in excess

questioned for years, yet only recently have it become a main issue that is usually addressed by companies and corporations (Ahen and Zetting, 2015). An increased demand in research on CSR has shown that some companies have reacted to this matter by investing more in corporate social responsibility as it increases competitive advantage (Crane and Glozer, 2016). CSR can be used as an aggressive business strategy and an efficient marketing tool in order to design and sustain a competitive advantage over

firms have directed their attention towards leading public interests. It is no secret that businesses hold a tremendous deal of power within the economy. With an abundance of assets and disposable cash at hand, companies have the power to engage in socially conscious expenditures. In result, it has become increasingly popular for companies to devote their time and money to environmental sustainability programs as well as various social

what is the meaning behind civic and social responsibility? In the business frame of mind, it can have different meanings depending on the person you are speaking too. When asking an engineer or executive from the 50’s and 60’s civic and social responsible was viewed differently and acted upon differently as the priority may have been building and developing towns and cities looking at the future. Today, the same dedication may not be the same or the outlook may be entirely different. It may be one

if they wanted to” (Friedman, Milton. 1970). An example he refers to is the fact that business professionals are not in a position to fight inflation, where factors, such as money supply and aggregate demand need to be considered. Overall it is investing governmental power in a person who has no general mandate to govern and why should we allow unelected companies to determine our social values and to take over the role of elected government. Thirdly, the process is undemocratic, as there are

Prior to this class, I would’ve viewed the purpose of a business to be exactly as Milton Friedman describes in his article “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.” In this article, he claims that corporate executives have responsibility to their employers, those employers being shareholders whose monetary contribution gives them capital to work with so they can expand the business, and the only way they will fulfill that duty is to make them as much money as possible. Businesses