Siwen Song| Adeoti Adesanya | Haider Bukhari| Yashodhara Rajaraman | Fengqiong Lu | Yiping Gao | Caoxi He

Distinction between CSR and IFA

Corporate Social Responsibility• Definition • Delivery • Critiques

International Framework Agreement• Background • Definition• Implementation

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

Determinants of Effective Delivery

• employees responsiveness

• how it is embedded in organization

• organizational ethics policy

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

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

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

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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• 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.