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This 16 page paper looks at the oil company Shell and seeks to assess whether or not it is ethical. The paper starts by looking at a range of actions by Shell which may considered in terms of corporate social reasonability and ethical stances, looking at social investments, projects, sponsorship and environmental projects. The paper then applies these approaches to ethical frameworks before reaching a conclusion. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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a range of corporate social responsibility models and taking issues such as the environment, equal rights, social concerns and employees which are dealt with in a ethical approach. There are
many examples, the development of the wind farm in Hawaii, the use of a leading international human rights institute to carry out independent assessments, human rights training in Nigeria, support
for the Millennium Development Goals and the creation of the Shell Foundation which was stated with endowment of $250 million from Shell along with the $127 million that Shell has
spent on community projects in 2005 (Shell, 2006). This appears to present Shell as an ethical company that takes its role as a corporate citizen very seriously. However, there
are also many examples of less than perfect behaviour which may be seen as contradictory to the model of the ethical respnsbilt corporate citizen. In Russia the company may be
facing charged of breaking the environmental laws, however, it is also argued that this could be as political as it is environment, with disagreements between Shell and the Russia government
over the licences (Kramer, 2006). The firms sponsorship of the Wild Photographer of the Year which is organised by Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine has also been argued
as hypocritical, hiding the damage that the company causes to wildlife (M2 PressWIRE, 2006). There are many examples; these include the Sakhalin Island operations where the development of the pipe
line and the oil platform that it serves is threatening the survival of the Western Pacific Grey Whale (M2 PressWIRE, 2006). In addition t the harm to the whales it
has been documented that the company has also destroyed several hundred tress that are on the IUCN threatened species list; the Sakhalin or Glehn spruce (M2 PressWIRE, 2006, Friends of
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