Diante do atual cenário político, econômico e social, permeado pela intensa competitividade, novas propostas de estilos de gestão estão emergindo no meio empresarial. No âmbito social, essas propostas tornam-se cada vez mais importantes e as organizações assumem o papel de resgatar os valores humanitários e as condições sociais do indivíduo. Desta forma, as organizações se tornam agentes de mudança e co-responsáveis pela reconstrução da cidadania e do bem-estar social. Este trabalho visa identificar e caracterizar dois tipos de propostas de gestão social: a Responsabilidade Social Empresarial e a Economia de Comunhão. Ambas surgem no contexto de amenizar a exclusão social, erradicar a pobreza e diminuir a disparidade presente no cenário contemporâneo. O objetivo deste trabalho é aplicar os Indicadores Ethos de Responsabilidade Social Empresarial em uma empresa que adotou um novo estilo de abordagem social: a Economia de Comunhão. A partir da aplicação dos indicadores, será possível mensurar e identificar as ações desenvolvidas por esta empresa e também avaliar se a prática dessas ações sociais atendem os preceitos da Responsabilidade Social Empresarial. / According to the current social, politic, and economic scenario, which is permeated with intense competitiveness, new proposals of management styles have been arising. In relation to social sphere, these proposals become more and more important and the organizations assume the role of rescuing human values and individuals social conditions. Thus, organizations have been acting as agents of change and are co-responsible for the reconstruction of citizenship and welfare state. This study seeks to identify and to characterize two kinds of social management proposals: the Business and Social Responsibility and the Economy of Sharing. Both of them appear in an attempt to reduce social exclusion, to eradicate poverty and to decrease the social disparity that is present in contemporary scenario. The objective of this work is to apply the Indices from Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsibility in an enterprise that had adopted a new way of social approach: the Economy of Sharing. From de application of these indices, there will be possible to measure and to identify the actions developed by this enterprise, as well as to evaluate if the practice of these social actions considers Business and Social Responsibility precepts.

Corporate social responsibility is presently defined by the World Business Council of Sustainable Development as persistent commitment by businesses to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while also increasing the quality of life of employees, their families, and the community. Guided by Freeman's stakeholder theory, this study examined the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the Nigerian bankers' reported satisfaction with the Nigerian banking sector. Survey data were collected from a convenience sample of 99 Nigerian bankers, including branch managers, zonal managers, tellers, marketers, and investors. A single-stage sampling procedure was used to elicit their satisfaction with the Nigerian banking sector and their perceptions of corporate social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility was conceptualized as a composite variable, with dependent sub-variables of ethics, human rights, and employee rights. A Pearson's r correlation test indicated a significant relationship between corporate social responsibility and Nigerian banker satisfaction (p < .05). These findings suggest that a majority of Nigerian bankers are satisfied with the banking sector which they feel, overall, behaves in a socially responsible way, although they also noted concerns related to insider abuse and a lack of transparency among internal processes. Implications for positive social change include informing policy makers and regulatory agencies in Nigeria about changes to public policy and the regulatory banking environment about risks associated with insider abuse and other internal processes in the banking industry that may damage efforts to improve corporate social responsibility with the goal of enhancing economic development in Nigeria.

In this work I investigate how executive social connections and executive gender diversity dually affect firm Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a set of firm policies implemented to benefit the social, economic, and environmental welfare of all stakeholders, and how the changes in CSR driven by executive social connections and executive gender diversity in turn affect a range of corporate policies. This research adds to the social networks, gender, and CSR literature within finance in multiple ways. First, while much past work examines the impact on corporate policy of executive gender or executive social connections in isolation, no major work to date examines the impact of gender dependent executive social connections on corporate policy. Second, this work definitively ties the dual effects of executive gender diversity and social connections to firm CSR. The dual impact of social connections and gender diversity on CSR is shown to affect major corporate policies. In all, this work provides evidence that CSR helps drive important firm polices, including M&A and executive compensation policy, and that CSR is impacted by both a firm’s executive gender diversity and social network connections. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an expanding trend as more organizations have adopted various CSR policies. Due to this, CSR has been a growing topic in Business and Psychology research, especially on the micro-level of CSR’s effects on individual employee outcomes. In this study, we proposed a new sub-dimension of Person-Organization (P-O) fit, such that there’s a Person-CSR (P-CSR) fit: the perceived congruence between an individuals’ values with an organization’s CSR initiatives. We predicted that P-CSR fit would explain additional variance over and beyond P-O fit for organizational outcomes: organizational commitment, organizational identity, job satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behaviors. Further, we predicted the relationship between P-CSR fit and these organizational outcomes would be moderated by the individual’s social responsibility values. Using a sample of 230 participants, who worked for their current organization for an average of 2.92 years and an average of 35.10 hours per week, results of this study consistently found P-CSR fit to capture additional variance over and beyond P-O fit. However, this study did not find the predicted moderating relationships. This study provides important implications for organizations that do not have CSR established, organizations that have CSR but do not make it known, and organizations that have CSR that are not proactive nor reflective of their industry.

Bakgrund: E-handeln inom modebranschen fortsätter att öka och bidrar till att konkurrensen hårdnar. Även mängden returer ökar och samtidigt ökar kraven på en hög leveransservice hos kunderna, vilket belastar returprocessen samt bidrar till en sämre miljö med ökade transporter och mer materialförbrukning. Det här blir således både en kostnadsfråga och en hållbarhetsfråga som företag verksamma inom e-handeln behöver beakta för att fortsatt profilera sig som hållbara. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för hur Corparate Social Responsibility kan användas inom E-handelns frakt- och returneringspolicys inom modebranschen. Genomförande: Den här studie har en kvalitativ forskningsdesign. Genom en flerfallsstudie med fyra fallföretag och en branschorganisation har det empiriska materialet bidragit till uppfyllelse av studiens syfte. Slutsats: För att företagen ska fortsätta vara lönsamma och profilera sig som hållbara behöver dem vägleda konsumenterna till bättre beslut genom att kommunicera returprocessens påverkan. Företagen behöver därmed ta ett ytterligare ansvar för den påverkan som deras verksamhet ger upphov till. På så sätt kan CSR användas inom frakt- och returneringspolicyn, där företagen driver en hållbar utveckling samt visar på deras ansvarstagande. / Background: E-commerce in the fashion industry continues to increase and contributes to a higher degree of competition. The amount of returns is also increasing and at the same time the demands for a high delivery service among customers increases. This is burdening the return process and contributing to a poorer environment with increased transports and more material consumption. Eventually, this becomes both a question about cost issue and a sustainability issue that the companies in E-commerce needs to consider in order to continue profile themselves as sustainable. Aim: The purpose of the study is to increase the understanding of how Corporate Social Responsibility can be used in the E-commerce delivery- and return policies, in the fashion industry. Design: This study has a qualitative research design. Through a multiple case study with four case companies and one organization the empirical material has contributed to fulfilling the purpose of the study. Conclusion: In order for the companies to continue to be profitable and to be able to profile themselves as sustainable they need to communicate the impact of the return process. This in order to guide the consumers to make better decisions. The companies therefore need to take additional responsibility for the impact that their business gives rise to. In this way CSR can be used within the delivery- and return policy, where the companies drive sustainable development and demonstrate their responsibility.

In 2008 the use of the term Business Social Responsibility (BSR) is now seen, in New Zealand at least, as being old fashioned. The field of BSR has been overwhelmed by the terminology of sustainability. In 1998, however, BSR in NZ was a new, exciting, and controversial development. The progression from BSR to sustainability is often presented as natural and inevitable but this thesis argues that BSR and sustainability in New Zealand arose from different roots and most of the key people who became involved in the NZ BSR organisation did so for reasons that were substantially different from the driving rationale of sustainability. Further, not all of those NZ BSR pioneers consider the current focus on sustainability to be a natural outgrowth of what they were trying to achieve through BSR. This thesis applies critical discourse analysis to interview transcripts and archived documents to examine the competing discourses surrounding the formation of the NZ BSR organisation in New Zealand up until the time of its merger to form the Sustainable Business Network. The NZ BSR organisation was seen by some as primarily a reaction to the prevailing hegemony of the ideas of the neo-liberal New Zealand Business Round Table (NZBRT). The NZ BSR philosophy did not necessarily challenge the neo-liberal inspired reforms of the previous fourteen years but did offer an alternative way for businesses to react to the new environment they found themselves in.

<p>Bakgrund: Enligt en undersökning gjord av Livsmedelsverket beräknas tjugo procent av Sveriges barn i dagsläget vara överviktiga eller lida av fetma. Orsaker till detta sägs vara bland annat ändrade levnadsvanor som exempelvis mindre fysisk aktivitet och mindre hälsosam mat. Övervikt ses i normala fall av samhället som ett problem och på senare tid har allt fler samhällsaktörer börjat uppmärksamma frågan. Kravet från samhället ökar på att bland annat företagen skall ta sitt sociala ansvar och hörsamma samt agera för en samhällsförbättring med syfte att komma tillrätta med överviktsproblemet. Något som dock inte har fått lika mycket utrymme i debatten om socialt ansvar i samband med övervikt är hur den offentliga sektorn agerar i denna situation.</p><p>Syfte: Utgör statens, kommunens, landstingets och skolans nuvarande agerande var för sig ett socialt ansvartagande med syfte att skapa de bästa förutsättningarna för en grundskolelev att komma tillrätta med sin övervikt? Skapar dessutom de fyra parternas gemensamma sociala ansvarstagande tillräckligt med förutsättningar för att grundskoleleven skall komma tillrätta med sin övervikt?</p><p>Tillvägagångssätt: Resultatet baseras på en intervjuundersökning med representanter för landsting, kommuner och skolor i Östergötlands län, närmare bestämt i kommunerna Linköping och Mjölby. Ytterligare har statens offentliga handlingar studerats och utvärderats.</p><p>Resultat: Resultatet av undersökningen visar att det fyra olika aktörerna uppmärksammar problemet om barns-, och i detta specifika fall grundskolelevers övervikt. De fyra aktörerna staten, kommunen, landstinget och skolan tar var och en ett socialt ansvar genom både kort och långsiktiga projekt. På frågan om de fyra parternas gemensamma ansvarstagande utgör tillräckliga förutsättningar för att ett barn själv skall komma tillrätta med sin övervikt är svaret nej. Exempelvis erkänner alla inblandande parter själva att de skulle kunna göra mer för att förbättra den rådande situationen. Aktörerna menar att det som saknas är ett helhetstänkande, att exempelvis hälsokunskap skulle behöva integreras i hela skolverksamheten och inte bara i samband med ämnet idrott och hälsa eller i olika temaveckor. Det som ytterligare skulle behövas för att lösa situationen är ett bättre samarbete mellan, de i denna undersökning, fyra olika aktörerna.</p>

<p>During the last years, the moral and ethics in companies has been a growing subject in media. Large multinational companies are to a bigger extent using workforce in developing countries and the working conditions at the workplaces in those countries, are more or less controlled. Even if a company carefully controls its own business, it can be using subcontractors that for instance use child labour or forced labour, or in some other way makes human rights abuses. When the world gets more globalized and the market where the companies act gets bigger, there will be new issues for companies to handle. The companies have to satisfy not only the interests of the costumers and the shareholders, but also the environment around it, containing many different stakeholders. Many companies do this by implementing "Codes of Conduct" and by working with what is often named <em>Corporate Social Responsibility</em> (CSR).</p><p>The purpose of this thesis is to interrogate how a company can adapt its work with CSR towards its stakeholders. The company chosen is Electrolux, since they have been praised by Globe Forum for their work with CSR in the category <em>Business Operation</em> and <em>Reporting. </em>To evaluate the performance of Electrolux, we have used the ten principles of the UN Global Compact. The ten principles states what can be done by companies in four different areas: human rights; working conditions; environment and anticorruption.</p><p>To do the evaluation we have been studying theories that explain a company's relations to its stakeholders (stakeholder theory) as well as a theory of CSR (Carrols four step pyramid). The data collection has been made mainly from reports from Electrolux, but also other documents and newspaper articles have been used.</p><p>The results indicate that Electrolux have managed to do such a successful job with CSR because they listen to all of its stakeholders and also shows them that they actually implement specific operations to take responsibility.</p>

During the last years, the moral and ethics in companies has been a growing subject in media. Large multinational companies are to a bigger extent using workforce in developing countries and the working conditions at the workplaces in those countries, are more or less controlled. Even if a company carefully controls its own business, it can be using subcontractors that for instance use child labour or forced labour, or in some other way makes human rights abuses. When the world gets more globalized and the market where the companies act gets bigger, there will be new issues for companies to handle. The companies have to satisfy not only the interests of the costumers and the shareholders, but also the environment around it, containing many different stakeholders. Many companies do this by implementing "Codes of Conduct" and by working with what is often named Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The purpose of this thesis is to interrogate how a company can adapt its work with CSR towards its stakeholders. The company chosen is Electrolux, since they have been praised by Globe Forum for their work with CSR in the category Business Operation and Reporting. To evaluate the performance of Electrolux, we have used the ten principles of the UN Global Compact. The ten principles states what can be done by companies in four different areas: human rights; working conditions; environment and anticorruption. To do the evaluation we have been studying theories that explain a company's relations to its stakeholders (stakeholder theory) as well as a theory of CSR (Carrols four step pyramid). The data collection has been made mainly from reports from Electrolux, but also other documents and newspaper articles have been used. The results indicate that Electrolux have managed to do such a successful job with CSR because they listen to all of its stakeholders and also shows them that they actually implement specific operations to take responsibility.

SAMMANFATTNING                                                                                       Titel: Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, som del av företagens varumärke – Påverkar CSR kundernas val vid butik? Nivå: C-uppsats i ämnet företagsekonomi Författare: Emmelie Ahlin och Sandra Skog Handledare: Agneta Sundström Datum: 2013 – Maj Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva och analysera hur företag arbetar med CSR som del av varumärket och hur det inverkar på konsumenter vid val av butik. Metod: Studien har tillämpat kvantitativ metod och som stöd för datainsamling har en enkätundersökning genomförts. Data som samlats in har bearbetas och presenteras i arbetet med hjälp av cirkel- och stapeldiagram. Vi har utgått från kvalitativ metod genom att genomföra två e-mail intervjuer med Coop och ICA. Sekundär data har samlats in genom Internet och företagens hemsida. För att få teoretiskt stöd i analysen har vi använt vetenskapliga artiklar och böcker. Resultatet har analyserats genom att sammanställa och koda insamlat material. Resultat &amp; slutsats: Resultatet visar att företagen i studien presenterar sig som mycket ansvarsfulla på respektive hemsida. Intervjuerna visar att båda företagen, som representeras av Coop och ICA, anser att de lägger ner mycket arbete inom CSR. De har ett nära samarbete med olika organisationer samt har miljömärka produkter som konsumenterna genom köp kan bidra till en bättre miljö och ett bättre samhälle. Från analysen framgår att företagen arbetar på ett liknande sätt när det gäller CSR. Skillnaden är att Coop arbetar mer med kommunikationen i relation till kunderna än vad ICA gör. När det gäller konsumenterna anser de att Coop är mer ansvarstagande än ICA. En slutsats är att kunderna anser att CSR är viktigt men att när de kommer till faktiska val väljer de utifrån andra kriterier.  Förslag till fortsatt forskning: Det vi ser som intressant att forska vidare om är hur konsumenter prioriterar och väljer butiker i andra branscher. Ett annat förslag är att studera hur företagen i vår studie kan påverka konsumenterna att göra mer ansvarsfulla val. Uppsatsens bidrag: Studiens bidrag är att vi kunnat visa att majoriteten av konsumenterna anser det viktigt att den butik de handlar i tar ett socialt och miljömässigt ansvar för de produkter de säljer. Vi har sett att de trots att de säger att det är viktigt med socialt och miljömässigt ansvarstagande så har det låg betydelse när de väljer butik. Konsumenterna säger att det är viktigt med socialt och miljömässigt ansvar men att när de sedan ska välja själva så är det närhet som är det viktigaste. / ABSTRACT Title: Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, as part of the corporate brand – Affects CSR costumers´choice at the store? Level: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business Administration Author: Emmelie Ahlin &amp; Sandra Skog Supervisor: Agneta Sundström Date: 2013 – May Aim: The aim is to describe and analyze how companies work with CSR as part of the brand and how it affects consumers when choosing store. Method: The study applied quantitative methodology and supporting data collection is survey carried out. The data collected is processed and presented in the report by the use of pie charts and bar charts. We have also used qualitative method by carrying out two e-mail interviews with Coop and ICA. Secondary data was collected through the Internet and from corporate websites. To obtain theoretical support, we have used scientific articles and books. The results were analyzed by compiling and encoding the material that we collected.  esult &amp; Conclusions: The results show that companies in the study present itself as very responsible on the website. The interviews show that both companies, represented by Coop and ICA, that they put a lot of work in CSR. They work closely with various organizations and the environmental label products as consumers through to purchase can contribute to a better environment and a better society. From analysis shows that firms operating in a similar way when it comes to CSR. The difference is that Coop is working more with communication in relation to customers than what ICA does. With regard to consumers, they believe that Coop is more responsible than ICA. One conclusion is that customers believe that CSR is important but when they get to the actual choices they choose based on other criteria.  Suggestions for future research: What we see as interesting to further research is how consumers prioritize and select retailers in other industries. Another proposal is to study how the companies in our study may influence consumers to make more responsible choices. Contribution of the thesis: The study grant is that we have been able to show that the majority of consumers believe it is important that the store they shop in taking social and environmental responsibility for the products they sell. We have seen that even though they say that it is essential to social and environmental responsibility, it has low importance when choosing store. Consumers say it's important to social and environmental responsibility, but then when they choose themselves, it's proximity to the most important thing.