Doing well by doing good — CSR in a global context

Magdalena Maria Popowska; Beata Ratkowska

doi:10.12775/eip.2018.021

Doing well by doing good — CSR in a global context

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Motivation: Nowadays, there is a general understanding that stakeholders are crucial for the successful enterprise. There is also a need to think about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a global context. Never before corporations enjoyed so much power and authority. Corporations need to evolve, re-think their strategies and change their processes accordingly. However, as of now, there is no agreed way of measuring overall sustainability of actions of each company. There is a great need for holistic studies of CSR, analyzing in details the value created, from stakeholders point of view. Aim: This paper is an attempt to propose a way of looking at corporate social responsibility in line with current methodologies and frameworks focusing on value creation. Currently there is no one definition of global CSR to be used, nor there is one comprehensive methodology to describe it. Instead there is abundance of theories and frameworks. This paper proposes one definition and presents a method of analysis of the global corporate commitment to CSR approach. The main concern of this paper is to offer an insight into different ways companies can create value for various stakeholders groups. Results: Conducted analysis indicated that products companies are aware of needs and expectations of various stakeholders and are good at meeting them. Although assessed companies managed to link sustainability with their strategies, they did not achieve transforming sustainability into core of their business.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach recenzowanych i innych wydawnictwach ciągłych
Published in:: EKONOMIA I PRAWO no. 17, edition 3, pages 289 - 305,
ISSN: 1898-2255
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2018
Bibliographic description:: Popowska M., Ratkowska B.: Doing well by doing good — CSR in a global context// EKONOMIA I PRAWO. -Vol. 17., iss. 3 (2018), s.289-305
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.12775/eip.2018.021
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