Social Responsibility

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Name                                                                            Executive Summary                                      Aims & Objectives                                         Literature Review

3.1.  Introduction

3.1.1.  What is Corporate Governance?

3.2.  What is CSR and the origin of CSR

3.3.  Principles of CSR

3.4.  Importance of CSR

         Analysis & Discussion

4.1.  Drivers of CSR

4.2.  CSR and Brands

4.3.  CSR  Reporting & its Standards

4.3.1.  Drivers of CSR Reporting

4.3.2.  Economic Dimensions of CSR reporting

4.3.3.  Issues of CSR reporting

         Future of CSR

         Conclusions                                                                                          Recommendations             References   

1.    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Corporate Social Responsibility has been a much debated and contested subject in business. This paper tries to address the ways in which current emphasis on corporate social responsibility has driven and still drives different organizations to adopt corporate social responsibility practices worldwide. The debate has however always been whether organizations follow CSR because they have a certain responsibility towards the environment they’re working for, or the motive behind their doing good to the society is essentially something else. For getting an in depth understanding of CSR, thorough research has been conducted through the literature till date. Thus this report explores an academic study and a robust understanding of CSR like what CSR means in different countries i.e. national and international as well as organizational contexts, what its underlying principles are, what are the drivers of CSR and how CSR is adopted in various organizations and eventually how CSR affects them. The aim of the report is to explore the different facets and perspectives of CSR rather than fathoming if CSR is right or wrong. This study would finally be...