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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SMES:
Tyagi, Ruchi
Tyagi, Ruchi
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Business is increasingly forming societal values and norms and defining public policy and practice. With raising awareness business are requested by their customers, clients, shareholders and other parties of interest to account for their activities on the global scale in a transparent way. The whole issue of socially responsible business is based on the premise that companies have the right to choose. In this context there is a need to distinguish between philanthropy and compliance to labour and environmental standards. The adoption of standards may be either voluntary or compulsory in a given social, political and economic environment. The codes on labour standards developed by FIFA and the World Federation of Sporting Goods Industries (WFSGI), which are based on the relevant ILO conventions, look for creating a level playing field for all the traders of sporting goods in the international market. FIFA in its license agreements with companies has included a clause on child labour prohibition, as well as the broader model code of conduct of the WFSGI and the ILO declaration on "Fundamental Principles and Rights” at Work. The past reports on Sports goods industry by Christian aid society in collaboration with South Asian coalition against child servitude 1997 highlighting the situation of working children in Jalandhar and Meerut based SGI, world cup 2002 global march to protest on the use of child labour in the sports goods industry, and the study funded by ILO-IPEC and FICCI in 1998 on Jalandhar (football) are suggestive of –that ‘passing the responsibility is no longer an option’.How the SGI Meerut defines Corporate Responsibility? What initiatives it is taking for being socially responsible? Does the industry have achieved a balance in its economical, environmental and ecological dimensions or the triple bottom line? Is SGI Meerut managing business processes to add social, environmental and economical value in order to produce a positive sustainable impact for both society and the business? What is the tendency of business involvement in societal issues (in context to SGI Meerut)? What is the role of business in society (in context to SGI Meerut)? Do the tendency and role of business toward society have congruence when compared and also is it affected by the ownership patterns? CSR is dependent on which elements in SGI Meerut? Is SGI Meerut aware of the fact that there is a need to distinguish between philanthropy and compliance to labour and environmental standards? Does the SGI Meerut have developed strategies for CSR?
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2012
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