It’s no longer enough for businesses to simply buy and sell their products and services without considering the world in which they operate. Companies must voluntarily do business in an economically, socially and environmentally responsible manner to be sustainable over the long term. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) will look different for each …
In today’s reputation economy, what you stand for as a corporation often matters more than what you produce or sell. Hard to believe? This was confirmed in June when Reputation Institute, a private global consulting firm based in New York, invited about 47,000 consumers across 15 markets to participate in a study that ranked the …
Sodexo has been ranked, for the eighth consecutive year, as the best-performing company for Economic, Social and Environmental performance in the benchmark RobecoSAM ‘Sustainability Yearbook 2015’ as Industry Leader and Gold Class. For each industry, the company with the highest score is named the RobecoSAM Industry Leader, and is considered to be the company within …
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This research examines the influence on consumers of the fit, motivation and timing of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The authors used familiar companies, including The Home Depot and Toys R Us, to analyze consumers’ thoughts and feelings after reading about a firms’ CSR initiatives. When consumers viewed CSR as a poor fit or profit-motivated, …
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