Responsibility to protect

The Importance of the Triple Bottom Line Boyd Watson Columbia Southern University The triple bottom line is an accounting framework that incorporate three parts: social, environmental (or ecological) and financial performances. The triple bottom line measures how an organization impacts people, the planet, and profits on both a local and a global scale. The triple bottom line can be a valuable tool to support sustainability goals for companies. Many businesses have adopted the triple bottom…

Philanthropic responsibilities focus on human welfare or goodwill which fits perfect this case since it has to do with finding the cure for a disease for humans. Ethical responsibilities focus on what is the right thing to do or how to avoid harms. Merck Company’s case fits this criteria too, since the main dilemma here is that should they invest in the project that might not be profitable in regards of money. Legal responsibilities focus on regulations and laws set by the…

their own mission statement for the organization. This is understandable since the board of director’s mission statement is fairly different than the company products. For this assignment we will focus on the mission statement in the corporate responsibilities part of their page (Mattel, n.d.). According to Mattel (n.d.) “Our mission is to act with integrity in all that we do, positively impacting our people, our products, and our planet by playing responsibly.” This has synergisms with Mattel’s…

While corporate influence on Washington, D.C. is not a new phenomenon; it has exponentially risen in scale over the past several decades. Corporate Political Action (CPA) is no longer subtle and neither is public opinion. A recent CBS poll shows that 84 percent of the public express a lack of confidence in corporations and another 67 percent view corporate executives as dishonest. Furthermore, 38 percent of respondents view “Big Business” as the greatest threat to the country, second only to…

For my final paper, I am going to evaluate a program called Beacon Hill Village (BHV). The village concept is initiated in 1999, at central Boston by a group of friends who wanted to be active in their own neighborhood, while living in their own homes. They wanted more control of their life, and they argued that they can take care of themselves instead of being taken care of. Therefore, the main idea of this village is sense of purpose. Beacon Hill Village had their first member in January 2002…

My personal ideologies correlates best with Canada’s Green Party due to a similar foundation of trust in citizens, powerful advocacy for Canada’s hushed and underlying issues in which the Green Party vocalizes on a prominent platform. To begin, my ideology consists of strong social liberties in which the LGBTQ community is no longer a minority group and coloured people aren’t labelled under the stamp of black, hispanic or yellow. I believe the relationship between the government and its people…

Corporate Social Responsibility issue has been one of the most discussed topic since early 1950. Recent researches in this respect stated that the description and definition has undergone transformations in terms of practice as well as theoretical part. Initially the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility was limited by philanthropy and afterwards metamorphosed to the focus of establishing healthy business and society relations. This is implied by providing a certain contribution made by a…

4.2 Climate for Corporate Entrepreneurship at Discovery Limited Corporate entrepreneurship refers to the ability to pursue opportunities in an industry despite the level and nature of the sources available in that time period. This is largely attributed to the organisations entrepreneurial mind-set (Martinkute & Skandarioon, 2013). Here Discovery Limited has proven to be a leading organisation in corporate entrepreneurship with the launching of the Vitality program along with the recent addition…

With the development and rapid growth of businesses, companies nowadays have grown larger and many of them comprise of shareholders who are general publics and these companies are manage by hired managers. This situation has leads to greater agency problem due to conflict of interest between shareholders and company’s management. With so, financial statement and media announcement has become important sources of information for the shareholders to avoid information asymmetry problem. In…

2.2 Corporate Reputation Risk Corporate reputation refers to people’s perception and evaluation of a corporation (Dutton et al., 1994). People’s evaluation of a corporate reputation is based on their communication, experiences with the corporation, and also on the symbolism that reflect the corporate behavior and spirit (Gotsi and Wilson, 2001). Corporate stakeholders make investment, career and purchase decision partly depend on a corporate reputation (Dowling, 1986). Reputation implies company…