Eco-Labels

2020 ◽  
pp. 249-274
Author(s):  
Anitha Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Strong Motivation ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Label Strategy

Eco-label products are very appealing. To increase sales most of the companies adopt eco-label strategy. On the other hand, the eco-labels often assure more than the products can in reality deliver. In particular, eco-labels may lead consumers to mechanically infer that the products are friendly to the environmentally friendly. The rising significance of corporate social responsibility provides strong motivation for companies to market unsustainable conventional products as environmentally friendly. Eco-labels are designed to inform consumers that the labeled product is more environmentally friendly than the competitors. Eco-labels are increasingly facilitating manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers in their purchasing decisions. The chapter explains in detail the objectives of eco-labels, benefits of eco-labels, consequences of eco-labels, and different types of eco-labels. It also mentions the adoption process of eco-labels by the consumers. The chapter ends with examples of best practices.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 06008
Author(s):  
Elena Zavyalova ◽  
Elena Ostrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
The Other ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The One ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
A Company

Nowadays companies try to strike a balance between maximizing their profit and being socially responsible. On the one hand, a lot of scientists and economists admit that the primary goal for any company has been and still is to maximize profits of shareholders. On the other hand, some other experts believe that a company nowadays should not concentrate only on pursing profits. Some other objectives are connected with interests of stakeholders, ethical and moral behavior of a company and others. Based on the analysis of theoretical approaches, the paper offers to unify different groups and their interests and goals. The authors during the research come to the conclusion that the development of CSR in Russia is directly connected with the country’s peculiarities and at the same time all European best practices are taken into consideration and relied upon by Russian companies in terms of CSR.

scholarly journals ANALISIS TERHADAP KETERBUKAAN INFORMASI PUBLIK PADA PERSEROAN TERBATAS YANG MELAKUKAN PENGUMPULAN DANA DONASI YANG DIDUGA DIGUNAKAN UNTUK PELAKSANAAN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rizqi ◽  
Chandra Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Legal Person ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
State Income ◽  
Corporate Social

Public Institution is a legal person under the Indonesian act number 14 year of 2008 about Public Information Openness. Under that act, Public Institution have an obligation to publish all the information on that regulation. Public Institution, under the Indonesian act of Public Information Openness means legislative, executive, judicative and any other institution who obtain operational funds from state income (ABPN) or regional income (APBD), public funds or foreign income. There’s an issue among Private Company and Public Information Commission, where the Private Company appointed as a Public Institution by the Judge from Indonesian Information Public Commission. There’s a gap on that dispute, because Private Company obeyed under the Indonesian act of Private Company number 40 year of 2007. The judge had consideration when decided Private Company to become a Public Institution, it’s because of that Private Company managed public donation and distribute that donation into several foundation. The other problem is the private company refused to be named as a Public Institution, so there’s no obligation for the private company to publish any information about the corporation.

Unfortunately, Ambiguities Still Abound in How We Conceptualize Corporate Social Responsibility

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paresh Mishra ◽  
Gordon B. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organizational Success ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Product Strategies ◽  
A Company

The idea of embedded versus peripheral corporate social responsibility (CSR) proposed by Aguinis and Glavas (2013) appears to be very intuitive and functional. After all, who can on face deny the argument that CSR will have the maximum positive outcomes when it is not just an add-on but is thoroughly integrated into the strategies, routines, and operations of the business? However, on closer inspection, there appear to be several problems with the embedded–peripheral dichotomy. Three major ambiguities of the embedded–peripheral dichotomy are focused on in this commentary. The first lies in the potential for significant ambiguity in whether a company falls in one category or the other based on how the totality of the organization's operations and functions are categorized. A company can have CSR built into their operations and strategies for part of their business (embedded) while have them not be built into their operations for different aspects of the operations or product strategies. The second ambiguity area is how CSR actions get defined as peripheral or embedded that does fit well with the actual importance level of the action to the organization. We look at an organization example (TOM Shoes) where peripheral CSR actions have significant impact on organizational success.

scholarly journals Biomimetic Organisations: A Management Model that Learns from Nature

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2329
Author(s):  
Edita Olaizola ◽  
Rafael Morales-Sánchez ◽  
Marcos Eguiguren Huerta
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Corporate Management ◽  
Continuous Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social

Since the end of the last century, different approaches for corporate management have been appearing that try to incorporate the social advances that are being produced and disseminated thanks to the greater capacity of communication available through social networks and other traditional avenues. Among the best known are Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, the Circular Economy, and Collaborative Economics. All of them add value to organisations, and all of them have a common characteristic: they are anthropocentric approaches. Our proposal goes a step further: we need a worldview that is capable of placing organisations in a position of continuous learning looking at nature, because it is the best way to integrate into it as a more ecosystem and thus achieve its flowering respecting the once to all the other subsystems that make up the planet: Organizational Biomimicry. This work compares the anthropocentric vision with the worldview at the same time that it offers a guide of the essential steps so that Organizational Biomimicry is the new model of corporate management.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility in state regulation of sustainable development

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 08004
Author(s):  
Elena Vorobey ◽  
Liudmila Belosluttceva ◽  
Olesya Fesenko
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social System ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Burden ◽  
Structural Parts ◽  
Corporate Social

The need of corporate social responsibility development is mostly explained with the fact that the states do not cope with the solution of problems of a social assistance of the population. But as the state undertakes all social burden of the population, the need for corporate social responsibility disappears. So, it is substantiate to adopt the other approach -the importance to proceed from essence of society as certain social system -system of people, their certain communities connected with each other by the public relations, and their interests. Stable, steady existence of this system is possible only at mutual adjustment of all its structural parts -adjustment of mutual interests.

Beyond corporate social responsibility. Towards a model for managing sustainable mining operations. Qualitative research based upon best practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 605-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Ventura ◽  
Cesar Sandro Saenz
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose – The aim of the study is to propose a model for conducting socially responsible operations in the mining industry, thriving to reach and sustain world-class standards in regard to profitability and environmental sustainability. The model uses a framework built upon a set of best practices in social responsibility by some of the largest mining companies in Peru. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology adopted emphasizes the scrutiny of best practices among 92 initiatives undertaken by 10 companies – 5 large and 5 mid-sized companies as measured by the ratio “amount of investment” – which contributed most to prevent social conflict escalation. Data set received input from in-depth interviews to managers in charge of social affairs as well as from interviews to social constituents – beneficiaries and local authorities. Content analysis supported data processing and analysis of results. Findings – Main findings comprise the following: distinct schemes for managing social responsibility in dependence upon impact evaluation indicators were found, which help to organize three models for conducting mining operations: traditional mining, up-to-date mining, and sustainability-oriented mining; evidence of distinct pathways undergone by large- and mid-sized companies in their quest to up-scale their corporate social responsibility profile. Originality/value – Overall results from this study suggest the feasibility to modeling the social responsibility of mining companies in accordance to three dimensions – social, economic, and environmental – that draw from the analysis of best practices undertaken by large- and mid-sized companies.

scholarly journals Authenticity, Power, and Pluralism: A Framework for Understanding Stakeholder Evaluations of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul F. Skilton ◽  
Jill M. Purdy
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
State Of Power ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Systematic Explanation

ABSTRACT:We explore the essential contestedness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by framing the interplay between CSR activities and stakeholder evaluations as a contest for jurisdiction over what it means to be socially responsible. This contest arises because firms and stakeholders are often guided by incompatible sensemaking systems. To show why context matters we show how stakeholders evaluate the authenticity of CSR activities on the basis of schemas for responsible behavior on one hand and their perceptions of firm identity on the other. This process can generate complex evaluations whose meaning depends on the distribution of power in fields and the extent to which pluralistic sensemaking systems are compatible. By positioning authenticity evaluations within a framework that describes the state of power and pluralism within which they are produced, we are able to present a systematic explanation of how and why stakeholder responses to CSR vary over a range of settings.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility and Management of Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Nitesh Raj
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The Other ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Social

<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>

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