Corporate social responsibility

TVU Number: 2104-7686 Discuss the key areas of corporate social responsibility and evaluate the benefits and costs of CSR within the hospitality industry. Introduction: The author is going to identify toward this essay what Corporate Social Responsibility represents in the hospitality industry and evaluate its benefits and costs. According to Michael Hopkins in “Corporate social responsibility and international development “(2007:15), “CSR is concerned

companies are more and more confronted with the awareness of a society turned toward environmental and social considerations, the respect for the nature and the human rights with the responsibilities of each with regard to the future generations, and henceforth have to integrate them into their strategies, and by the same, in search of profits. This new “business model” is called "Corporate Social Responsibility". If the Society isn’t well, the market won’t be well and these are the economy and business

entrepreneurship. The Philips Sustainability Report 2007 is our tenth externally verified report. Our first environmental report was for the year 1998. We expanded to sustainability reporting beginning with the year 2002 to cover the full spectrum of our social, environmental and economic performance. This 2007 report demonstrates that sustainability is a business driver at Philips and is fully integrated in our strategy. Given our competencies and desire to improve lives with innovations that are important

how to develop the corporate in the respect of moral principles. The pursuit of profits can’t no longer exist without taking care about a certain code of conducts and a wise reflection on the meaning of its actions. Ethics becomes at the heart of this social debate. But, it’s really since the late 1970s and early 1990s the companies realize with the serious economic and natural disaster it was time to act ethically. Indeed, in the 60’s, 70,s, the Corporate Social Responsibility theorized the involvement

1 McKinsey Global Survey Results McKinsey Global Survey Results: Valuing corporate social responsibility Valuing corporate social responsibility Environmental, social, and governance programs create shareholder value, most executives believe, but neither CFOs nor professional investors fully include that when evaluating business projects or companies. 1 This survey was in the field in December 2008 and includes responses from 238 CFO s, investment professionals, and finance executives

Bâtiments à forte efficacité énergétique : Etat de l’art et réalisations envisagées au sein de l’Institut National de l’Energie Solaire Pierre Tittelein, Etienne Wurtz, Gilbert Achard LOCIE. – Laboratoire Optimisation de la Conception et Ingénierie de l’Environnement Université de Savoie : Campus Scientifique Savoie Technolac 73376 - Le Bourget du Lac Cedex (France) Email : pierre.tittelein@univ-savoie.fr Résumé : Un certain nombre de pays européens développe depuis longtemps des concepts de bâtiments

A World in Trust Leadership and Corporate Responsibility “The case against CSR: Healthier foods, energy conservation and more fuel-efficient vehicles didn’t become common until they became profitable … The only sure way to influence corporate decision-making is to impose an unacceptable cost – regulatory mandates, taxes, punitive fines, public embarrassment – on socially unacceptable behaviour. Pleas for CSR will be truly embraced only by those executives who are smart enough to see that doing

de responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise ? Cet article est basé sur le fait que la construction d’une réponse nécessite de mieux comprendre pourquoi une entreprise voudrait devenir socialement responsable alors qu’une telle démarche est en contradiction directe avec l’objectif de maximisation du profit. Notre réponse s’organise en deux mouvements. Dans un premier temps, nous tentons de mieux comprendre la multiplication des appels institutionnels à plus de responsabilité sociale de la part des entreprises

3.1 Stakeholders 7 2.3.2 Environment 10 2.3.3 Social Issues 10 2.4 Ethical Codes: definition and impact 11 2.6 Communicate and Reporting corporate social initiatives 12 III - Evaluation 12 3.1 Corporate Social Responsibility Pyramid 12 3.2 Comparison with Hilton and Marriott 13 3.3 prize 14 IV - Conclusions 14 V - Recommendations 14 Bibliography 14 Appendices 17 Appendix 1: FTSE4Good Index 18 Appendix 2: Corporate social responsibility 18 APPendix 3: Accor hotels environment charter

activities or products. More and more, companies are communicated about CSR or “Corporate Social Responsibility” in their activities creating the idea of competitive advantage from its competitors. I What is CSR ? 1 Nowadays global brands if they want to be sustainably successful, should ensure that they incorporate social responsibility into their strategy. In 1999 Caroll explains that Corporate social responsibility is “the conduct of Business so that it is economically profitable, low abiding