Padico Holding: Developing Responsiveness through Corporate Social Responsibility

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 590-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dahouk Dawoudi ◽  
Anton Sabella
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Stakeholder Model ◽  
Kant's Ethics ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Do So

AbstractThe field of business ethics is an area of growth, both in the business and education sectors in the Arab world, including Palestine. But most research on this subject has been carried out in the USA and Europe, which gives most of the issues related to this field a distinctively American or European character. As an alternative, this case attempts to shed the light on a wide range of socio-economic, educational and business issues that are typically encountered in Palestine and to explain innovative approaches to resolving key dilemmas related to resolving the skill shortage that affects the competitiveness of Palestinian enterprises. It will do so by looking at Padico Holding, a pioneer in developing a creative program adapted to the enterprise sector’s needs. The case draws its analysis from international theories and concepts by explaining Padico’s sense of responsibility towards community inspired by Kant’s ethics of duty, which is demonstrated in its business societal orientation built around the “stakeholder model.”

Corruption in Russia: IKEA’s expansion to the East (A-D)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urs Müller
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
Corporate Social

Subject area Business ethics corruption governance and compliance integrity management international management intercultural and cross-cultural management internationalization corporate social responsibility (CSR). Study level/applicability The case has successfully been used with a wide range of audiences from masters/MBAs to Executives. It will also work with undergraduates. Case overview This four-part case series can be used to discuss business ethics, compliance/governance, integrity management, reacting to and preparing against corruption in the context of internationalization and allows to also briefly touching upon the issue of CSR. Case (A) describes a challenge IKEA was facing, while trying to enter Russia in 2000. The company was preparing to open its first flagship store on the outskirts of Moscow, only the first of several planned projects. After substantial investments in infrastructure and logistics, IKEA focused on marketing, but quickly faced a sudden complication. Its major ad campaign in the Moscow Metro with the slogan “[e]very 10th European was made in one of our beds” was labeled “tasteless”. IKEA had to stop the campaign because it “couldn’t prove” the claim. Soon Lennart Dahlgren, the first general manager of IKEA in Russia must have realized that the unsuccessful ad campaign was going to be the least of his problems: A few weeks before the planned opening, the local utility company decided not to provide their services for the store if IKEA did not pay a bribe. What should IKEA and Lennart Dahlgren do? Was there any alternative to playing the game the Russian way, and paying? The subsequent cases (B), (C) and (D) describe IKEA’s creative response to the challenges described in case (A), and then report about new challenges with alleged corruption within IKEA and in the legal environment, and finally raise the question whether IKEA can be considered to have a (corporate social) responsibility to fight corruption on a societal level to build the platform for its own operation in Russia. Expected learning outcomes Responding to a threatening corruption demand (here: responding to an outside demand for a bribe), avoiding corruption from the outside, cross-cultural differences in drawing the line for corruption, preventing corruption within the organization, (corporate social) responsibility of firms to improve the political/legal/social/moral environment in which they operate are the expected learning outcomes. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 5: International Business

Conclusions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Moore
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Organizational Ethics ◽  
Stakeholder Approach ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Do So

The purpose of the concluding chapter is to review and draw some conclusions from all that has been covered in previous chapters. To do so, it first summarizes the MacIntyrean virtue ethics approach, particularly at the individual level. It then reconsiders the organizational and managerial implications, drawing out some of the themes which have emerged from the various studies which have been explored particularly in Chapters 8 and 9. In doing so, the chapter considers a question which has been implicit in the discussions to this point: how feasible is all of this, particularly for organizations? In the light of that, it revisits the earlier critique of current approaches to organizational ethics (Corporate Social Responsibility and the stakeholder approach), before concluding.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF IMPLEMENTING THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY BY RUSSIA’S INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
IRINA MOROZOVA ◽  
SERGEY VOLKOV
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Corporate Social

The article analyses the features of implementing the concept of corporate social responsibility by Russian industrial enterprises. As the object of the analysis, the authors chose the Volgograd regional administrative office of OOO Lukoil-ENERGOSETI. Based on a wide range of statistical data on the level of CSR development in the region, the article reveals key features of industrial enterprises' corporate social responsibility. 

Addressing Moral Confusion: Ethics Isn’t Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Jason Brennan ◽  
William English ◽  
John Hasnas ◽  
Peter Jaworski
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Ethical Duty ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Law ◽  
Compliance With The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Corporate Social

Moral confusion in business ethics and corporate social responsibility often stems from treating ethics and law as if they were the same. Ethics and the law often overlap and sometimes conflict. They are distinct categories. Laws may enforce people’s ethical obligations. But they may also contravene them and require unethical action. Because the law has no independent moral authority, business people are always required to ask themselves whether compliance with the law is the right course of action. When the law prescribes oppressive or unjust conduct, they may have an ethical duty not to obey the law.

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