corporate social responsibility and international framework agreement
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Siwen Song| Adeoti Adesanya | Haider Bukhari| Yashodhara Rajaraman | Fengqiong Lu | Yiping Gao | Caoxi He
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Distinction between CSR and IFA
Corporate Social Responsibility• Definition • Delivery • Critiques
International Framework Agreement• Background • Definition• Implementation
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Definition• Carroll’s Four Part Definition
Philanthropic ResponsibilitiesBe a good corporate citizen.
Ethical ResponsibilitiesBe ethical.
Legal ResponsibilitiesObey the law.
Economic ResponsibilitiesBe profitable.
• CSR encompasses the economic, legal, ethical and discretionary (philanthropic) expectations that society has of organizations at a given point in time
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Determinants of Effective Delivery
• employees responsiveness
• how it is embedded in organization
• organizational ethics policy
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Critiques
•Restricts the free market goal of profit maximization•Business is not equipped to handle social activities•Dilutes the primary aim of business•Increase business power•Limits the ability to compete in a global marketplace
Arguments Against
•Addresses social issues business caused and allows business to be part of the solution•Protects business self-interest•Limits future government intervention•Addresses issues by using business resources and expertise •Addresses issues by being proactive
Arguments For
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Background• Mid-1980s / Dnone & the International Union of Food Workers (IUF). • IFAs developed slowly throughout the 1980s and 1990s, but proliferated after 2000.
• $1,015,550,100,000• 3.3 millions
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Definition
global agreement
Global Union
Federation
the ILOSix KeySix KeyPointsPoints
Suppliers
Trade Union
complaints
• IFAs are agreements on minimum labor standards negotiated between Global Union Federations and MNEs (Lone, 2005).
• Six key points by IUF/Danone agreements
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The Implementation Issue
• Problems 1) deficient dissemination of and knowledge about the agreement 2) hard to influence the suppliers• Achievements1) Forming new union at the Buenos Amigos plantation 2) Improved union-employer relations on Chiquita-owned plantation
Case:
Chiquita COLSIBA
& (Lone,2005)
IFA’s potential has only been exploited to a low degree, and it has a promising future.
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Welcome Haider !
Just Listen : )
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• Collier, J. and Esteban, R. 2007. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Commitment’, Business Ethics: A European Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 19-33.
• Hammer, N. 2005. ‘International Framework Agreements between Rights and Bargaining’, Transfer, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 511-530.
• Herrnstadt, O. 2007.‘Are International Framework Agreements A Path to Corporate Social Responsibility?’ The Journal of Business Law, Vol.10, No. 1, pp187-224.
• Riisgaard, L. 2005. ‘International Framework Agreements: A New Model for Securing Workers’ Rights?’, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 707-737.
• Windsor, D. 2006. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: Three Key Approaches’, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 93-114.
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