Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Chapter
Topics
Theories
to
of
CSR Practices
Global
Practices by MNCs
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Learning
Objectives
1.Explain
the
the
the
steps taken at the international level to regulate CSR practices of companies.
5.Discuss the
factors that drive CSR practices of MNCs.
6.Identify the
organizations that promote CSR at the international level.
7.Discuss the
role played by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
8.Explain CSR
disclosures by companies at the international level with possible reasons for the
current trends in this area.
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footprint reporting.
Environmental
Triple
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Stakeholder theory
Environmental
Legitimacy theory
Social
Legitimacy theory
(continued)
Societys
Learning Objective 3, 5
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Significant
practices.
Biased
Disclosures
Difference
Learning Objective 4
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Learning Objective 4
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SEC
Learning Objective 4
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Climate change
International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has
found concentration of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere has increased by 35% in the past 250
years (by far exceeding such variations over
preceding 10 million years).
1995-2006: rank among warmest years for global
surface temperature.
2007 Stern Report in the United Kingdom on the
Economics of Climate Change: our actions resulting in
climate change risk major disruption in economic
activity (e.g. could cost .5% to 1% of world GDP per
annum by mid-century and could be likened to
economic depression of first half of twentieth
century).
Learning Objective 5
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Learning Objective 5
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Several
International
Learning Objective 7
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IFAC
As
Part I
Defines
Ensures
Learning Objective 7
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Part II
Standards
for disclosure.
Base content.
Three types of disclosure:
Strategy and profile (overall context for understanding
organizational performance).
Management approach (how an organization addresses
given set of topics).
Performance indicators (economic, environment and social
performance).
Learning Objective 7
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In
GRI
is a network-based organizationhas
developed worlds most widely-used sustainability
reporting framework.
Has
Learning Objective 7
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May
August
Learning Objective 7
15-22
UPS
GRI
Senior
Hard
Learning Objective 8
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Items
Items Disclosed
U.S.,
Thailand
Learning Objective 8
15-24
Methods of Disclosure
U.S.
Learning Objective 8
15-25
Firms
Learning Objective 8
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Learning Objective 8
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