scholarly journals From Philanthropic Strategy to Strategic Philanthropy: Selected Canadian Case Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Foster ◽  
Agnes Meinhard ◽  
Ida Berger ◽  
Pike Wright

The rapidly growing literature investigating corporate social responsibility and corporate philanthropy attests to the world-wide interest in this trend, both from an academic perspective and as a legitimate component of commercial success (Burson-Marsteller, 2000; Waddock & Graves, 1997). As Marx (1999) points out, the evolution of corporate philanthropy from donation programs to strategic philanthropy has been well documented in the nonprofit literature, particularly as it relates to US corporations, and indeed research interest in this topic dates back to the 1930s and 1940s (Carroll, 1999). Smith (1994) suggests that most US corporations established philanthropic foundations in the 1960s to demonstrate their obligation to support the American version of the social contract. Part of that contract involved the separation of profit, nonprofit and government roles. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Anupam Singh ◽  
Dr. Priyanka Verma

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) earlier applied as corporate philanthropy and has been in practice in India since ages. However, philanthropy in globalised and modern India does not solve the purpose in quantity and quality. Clause 135 of Company Act 2013 created huge hue and cry among the business community in India. As per clause 135 of the Companies Act, 2013, Every company with an annual turnover of 1,000 crore INR ($161 million) and more, or a net worth of 500 crore INR ($80 million) and more, or a net profit as low as five crore INR ($800,000) and more have to spend at least 2% of their average net profit over the previous three years on CSR activities. With the introduction of new Company act 2013 India became the first country in the world to have legislation for compulsory CSR spending. The paper aims at analyzing the motive of making CSR spending mandatory and it also attempts to explain the concept of CSR in the present Indian scenario, the social issues addressed by the Indian corporations, and methodologies adopted by them to address those issues.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 169-193
Author(s):  
Mohammad Alwasmi ◽  
Ahmad Alderbas

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an idea that has grown during the last three decades from the voluntary activity of business firms into a debate about whether CSR should be mandated by law because of the increased demand from society. Further, it has been argued that business corporations are owned by their shareholders, and the managers must concentrate on maximizing the wealth of their shareholders and not of the community. To determine how better to apply CSR, this paper begins with looking at the evolution of CSR as a system around the world and then discusses the definition of CSR. In addition, this paper explores the advantages and disadvantages of implementing voluntary CSR and then explores mandatory CSR. Moreover, in this paper, it is found that determining the proper CSR system depends on many factors in each country, such as the social, economic and legal factors that should be examined before applying mandatory or voluntary CSR.


2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jones ◽  
Martin Wynn ◽  
Daphne Comfort ◽  
David Hillier

This paper offers a preliminary examination of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitments and agendas being addressed and reported by the UK‟s leading retailers. The paper begins with a short discussion of the characteristics and origins of CSR and of the current structure of retailing in the UK. This is followed by an illustrative examination of the CSR issues publicly reported by the UK‟s top ten country of origin retailers and the paper draws its empirical material from the CSR reports posted on the World Wide Web by these retailers. The findings reveal that the UK‟s top ten retailers are addressing and reporting on four sets of CSR themes namely those relating to the environment; the marketplace; the workplace and the community. The paper concludes with a discussion of a number of general issues relating to these themes.  <br /><br />


2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhii Illiashenko ◽  
Galina Peresadko ◽  
Olga Pidlisna ◽  
Evgeniy Kovalenko

The meaning of corporate social responsibility and the rating results of the Global competitive index 2011- 2012 of the World economic forum are given in the article. The emphasizing of society responsibility and responsibility for marketing activity and its influence on the society are researched in the work. The socially responsible marketing of the company in the profile of marketing-mix elements are proposed. In the article is determined that implementation of the social responsibility must take place at three levels: primary, corporate and highest.


Author(s):  
Nitesh Raj

<p><em>These days when the Central Government is interested in Make in India campaign the scale of management or evaluation of business is not as if used to be about fifty years ago. At that time only that business organization was considered good which was earning profit for its owner but today the situation is absolutely changed. Today business has to look to the interest of many other stakeholders along with the interest of the owner. The employees- line and top management, consumers, suppliers, competitors, government, community, environment and even the world happen to be the other stakeholders. This responsibility of business, which includes the satisfaction of these parties along with the owner, is called the social responsibility of business or corporate sectors.</em></p>


Author(s):  
Jorge Julião ◽  
Marcelo Calvete Gaspar ◽  
Benny Tjahjono

Hotel sustainability has become a focal point for companies all around the world with a dual focus on attracting customers to their business and capitalizing from sustainability measures and practices. Such sustainability initiatives allow for increasing economic efficiency and reducing energetic and environmental impacts. Based on the triple bottom line, social sustainability is also key to promote and implement efficient corporate social responsibility practices. This study reports on a survey carried out to address the customers perceptions regarding the influence of sustainability on their choice of hotel. This survey was conducted in Oporto city (Portugal) to domestic and foreign tourists in 2018/2019 with a valid sample size of more than 370 respondents. This research concludes that, even though customers show to be sensitive to social, environmental, and economic aspects, these issues do not exhibit a significant influence on their hotel selection based only on sustainability claims.


Author(s):  
David Ogula

Poor community-company relations in the Niger Delta have drawn attention to the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the region. Since the 1960s, transnational oil corporations operating in the Niger Delta have adopted various CSR strategies, yet community-company relations remain adversarial. This article examines community expectations of CSR and the influence of the traditional, political, and administrative systems on community expectations of CSR in the Niger Delta region. An overview of CSR, oil industry CSR practices in the Niger Delta, and the methodology used is presented. The findings show that community expectations were framed through the lens of underdevelopment and its implications for the social and economic wellbeing of the indigenes. The implications of the traditional, political, and administrative systems and the network of organizations for CSR in the Niger Delta are discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Andrzej Janowski

The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted the interests of both practitioners and scientists, particularly since 1953, when H. R. Bowen published The Social Responsibilities of the Businessman. Over the years, the CSR concept evolved and became a managerial phenomenon; it was applied to different sectors with supposedly excellent effects. Unfortunately, there was discourse around the meaning of CSR. In the world of science, there is no agreement as to the semantic area of CSR. Academics face absolute, undisturbed freedom in the formulation of its elements and definitions. That abovementioned ambiguity determined the situation the recent CSR literature is vague and biased, and an extensive analysis of the latest contributions are lacking. To address this gap, there has been proposed a systematic literature review and bibliometrics of 119 articles published in 45 peer-reviewed, high-quality academic journals and 19 books, from January 1950 to July 2020. There are three objectives of this paper: to analyze the recent CSR definitions in the context of Carnegie’s principles, to identify trends in that field and evaluate the utility of the scientific efforts in the abovementioned context, and to indicate the future research paths in the context of corporate social responsibility.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayra García González

Key words: Social corporate rsponsibility, society, stakeholders, utilityAbstract. This study has the objective ofpresenting the differents points of view about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the business world. The businessman that surged from Milton Freidman ihoughts in the seventeen's, which promote the idea that "the company isjust responsible of getting profits and increase the stock's value, " is now being changed for "strategic philanthropy", like Michael Porter named it, in which the social companiesfforts are focusing on initratives related with programs that helps the society but, at the same time, helps the companies to get a benefit (intangible or tangible), that can be reflected in economical terms for the company. The "voluntary" situation ofthe social corporate rsponsibility turns it into a ship where only companies that have a real pressure from the shareholders or stake holders (like employees, suppliers, ecologist, 0NG's, society) to implement strategies that allows a social and environmental improvement as a way of get in an aggregate value that will atkact investment and assure a sustainable growth in the long time.Palabras Clave: Grupos de interés, responsabilidad social corporativa, sociedad, UtilidadResumen. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo presentar las posturas en Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) que actualmente están siendo manejadas enel ambito empresarial. Los empresarios que surgieron de la coniente de pensamiento de Milton Friedman en los años setenta, la cual sostiene que la empresa solo es responsable de genera utilidades y aumentar el precio de la accion esta actualmente siendo transformada por una "filankopía eskatégica", como la llama Michael Porter, en la que se pone énfasis en que la empresa contribuya a la mejora social, siempre y cuando pueda lograrse también un beneficio (tangible o intangible) que repercuta entérminos económicos a laempresa. Lo cierto es que el enfoque de voluntariedad de la Responsabilidad Corporativa, lo convierte en un barco en el que solo se suben los que tienen una presión real por parte de los accionistas y los grupos de interés (como empleados, proveedores, grupos ecologistas, ONG s, sociedad) en implementar estrategias que permitan la mejora social y medio ambiental como medio de generar un valor agregado que sirva de atracción de inversión y que también genere un crecimiento sostenible enel largo plazo.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-81
Author(s):  
Luchenciuc Elena-Georgiana ◽  
Mihaela Rus ◽  
Tanase Tasente

When we say "Organizational communication", we think, unconsciously, about organizations and how they are influenced by the effectiveness of communication both between team members and the external environment. Because the world revolves around ideas, concepts and communication strategies well developed for the purpose of informing, helping or even manipulating local and global communities, the paper will emphasize the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaigns and how they influence the environment in the context of sustainable development, various categories of public or the image gained from such an initiative as they may represent a smart strategy to repair a stained name. To emphasize the importance of CSR, we will present some campaigns initiated by an the organization of the food and drink industry, both in Romania and internationally, between 2016-2018. Through this research, we set out to identify the main social responsibility campaigns of the organization, the main areas of action of the social responsibility campaigns and to establish comparative analysis between the particularities of the CSR campaigns in Romania and internationally.


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