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This 12 page paper looks five different corporate social responsibility issues that face businesses today; climate change, sustainability, child labour, fair trade and environmental accounting. Each is discussed to look at how the issue can be defined and how it may impact in businesses. The bibliography cites 24 sources.
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responsibility than simply making profits for their shareholders and producing goods through the production of goods and/or services. The concept of corporate responsibility may be seen as akin good corporate
citizenship; where business have a responsibility to manage the organizations impact on society as a whole (Marsden and Andriof, 1998). This is taken further in Andriof and McIntosh (2001) who
state the need for managers to understand the impact that ripple effect resulting from corporate actions, with these divided into three main areas; social impacts, economic impacts and environmental impacts.
Each of these areas may be seen as relating to corporate social responsibility (CSR). With a wide range of issues it may be argued that to consider all may
not be viable, with some issue likely to be more prevalent and attracting more attention we can look at five that we believe are rising in prominence; climate change, sustainability,
child labour, fair trade and environmental accounting. It is likely that in one way or another, these issues are going to effect business across the globe, including those in Australia.
Climate change is an issue over which there is increasing awareness, although there is some controversy over the causes of global warming, it is generally accepted that greenhouse gas
emissions are a significant contributory factor, and many firms are seeking to take actions to reduce the level of greenhouse gases for which they may be held accountable. The
earth is surrounded by gases and the greenhouse effect is when these gases change and more heat form the sun is retained than before, this results in the atmospheric temperature
rising the same way as would be seen in a greenhouse, and thus we see global warming and the associated problems. One of the measures adopted by the international community
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