Corporate Social Responsibility, Audit Fees, and Audit Opinions Long Chen School of Management George Mason University E-mail: lchenk@gmu.edu Bin Srinidhi Department of Accountancy City University of Hong Kong E-mail: acbin@cityu.edu.hk Albert Tsang School of Accountancy The Chinese University of Hong Kong E-mail: albert.tsang@cuhk.edu.hk Wei Yu Department of Accounting and Information Management The University of Tennessee E-mail: wyu4@utk.edu March 30, 2012
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Enhancing Sustainability in Management Education: Initiatives and challenges Aasha Sharma Purpose: The Corporate has infused sustainability into its core strategy. The extant of initiatives to engage employees in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability issues reflects the value driven leadership and the benefits derived thereof from these engagements. Social linkages, community development projects and strategic CSR leading to inclusive growth have become the trend. This stresses
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1. Discuss the challenges regarding corporate social responsibility that companies in the apparel industry face in their supply chains around the world: The apparel industry faces many challenges in regards to corporate social responsibility in their supply chains around the world. Today factories in Asia and Africa are suffering from abusive treatment and unsafe working conditions. Statistics suggest that between 25% and 50% of factories treat their workers as nothing more than means of generating
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reputation management in relation to an organization’s credibility. If a PR person only has their credibility to offer and is only as good as his or her deserved reputation, how can social media help or harm that reputation? What is Reputation and why is It Important? • Corporate Reputation is estimated to be worth about 4 to 5 percent of sales per year. • Reputation is the most valuable asset entrusted to a CEO by the board and shareholders. • Reputation
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experienced. Firstly, the strategic debate regarding global integration versus national responsiveness will be examined. Associated with this issue, is the matter of diversity across different regions. Finally, the essay will consider McDonald’s corporate image of social responsibility in relation to environmental sustainability and increasing problems of worldwide obesity. McDonald’s as we know it today is a result of Ray Kroc taking the entrepreneurial hamburger ‘stall’ established by the McDonald brothers
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OKE STEPHEN SSP12/13/H/0831 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is typically described as self-regulation that is part of a corporation's business model and strategic plan. In a perfect world, CSR means that a business monitors itself to make sure it adheres to legal, ethical, environmental, and international standards across its operations. The more visible aspect of CSR is a corporation's willingness to promote and support community, national, and global
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AccountAbility. The brief idea about of this article which we have got into is that companies do not become model citizens over a night as when it comes to social responsibility. The writer has written in this article that the company has not always followed its own advice when it comes to social responsibilities which have led Nike the global poster child for corporate ethical fecklessness. His every move was being analyzed and every problem discovered was being publicized as a proof of organization’s irresponsibility
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Ethics Paper Role of Ethics and Social Responsibility in Developing a Strategic Plan While Considering Stakeholder Needs and Agendas When a company makes a strategic plan it is best to consider both the moral and social responsibilities that they have, not just to the business, but to the stakeholders, as well. The stakeholders are customers, suppliers, the community, employees, stockholders, the government, and the suppliers. “From a social responsibility perspective, many organizations are
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* What is CSR? The debate over creating a permanent meaning over the concept Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been going on for over 30 years now. This concept started in the 1950’s where Howard Bowen who was addressed as the Father of Corporate Social Responsibility, published his book Social Responsibility of the Businessman being the first person to come up with defining the concept (Carrol 1999). He stated that “It refers to the obligations of businessmen to peruse those policies, to
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A A1 Corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company's effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. The term generally applies to company efforts that go beyond what may be required by regulators or environmental protection groups. Corporate social responsibility may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit to the company, but instead promote positive social and environmental
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