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BUS223
Chapter Five Key Terms
Term | Definition |
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Corporate Social Responsibility | The responsibilities that businesses have to the societies within which they operate. |
Corporate Sustainability Report | Report that provides all stake-holders with financial and other information regarding a firm's economic, environmental, and social performance. |
Economic model of CSR | Limits a firm's social responsibility to the minimal economic responsibility of producing goods and service and maximizing profits within the law. |
Integrative model of CSR | For some business firms, social responsibility is fully integrated with the firm's mission or strategic plan |
Philanthropic model of CSR | This model of CSR suggests that business is free to contribute to social causes as a matter of philanthropy or charity, but has no strict obligation to contribute to social causes. |
Reputation Management | The practice of caring for the image of a firm. |
Social entrepreneurship | A movement that seeks to address social problems through the creativity and efficiency of market forces. |
Social web model of CSR | The view that business exists within web of social relationships. The social web model views business as a citizen of the society in which it operates. |
Shareholder theory | A model of corporate social responsibility that holds that business managers have ethical responsibilities to a range of stakeholders that goes beyond a narrow view that the primary or only responsibility is to stockholders. |