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Course Content
• Introduction - Our changing world and the evolution of CSR
• From CSR pyramids to shared value and beyond: CSR models and
frameworks
• Moving beyond shareholders: Internal and external stakeholders
• The S in CSR: Social and global issues
• Environmental sustainability: The role of business in sustainable
development
• Responsible leadership: Inspiring CSR
• CSR reporting
• Benchmarking CSR: Frameworks, standards, certifications and indices
• Business ethics: How philosophy can help us make ethical decisions in
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today’s business
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Moving beyond shareholders:
Internal and external
stakeholders
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17hnaKFjDU8
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Strategic CSR
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Stakeholders defined
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Internal and external stakeholders
(de Chernatony and Harris, 2000)
• Internal stakeholders include individuals and groups within the
organisation that affect or are being affected by the organisation’s
actions and goals.
• External stakeholders include individuals and groups that have no
direct affiliation to the organisation.
• Internal CSR is a company’s ethical behaviour towards its internal
stakeholders, mainly employees.
• External CSR encompasses ethical behaviour towards external
stakeholders and includes philanthropy and community
contributions.
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Stakeholder prioritisation
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Stakeholders’ prioritisation
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Stakeholders’ prioritisation table
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Organisations with high stakeholders’
management capability
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Stakeholder integration and Win
(based on Mackey and Sisodia, 2014)
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Stakeholder-related CSR issues
• Employees
– Fair employment
• Suppliers
– Fair trade
• Consumers
– Ethical trade
– Ethical marketing
• Governments
– Partnership beyond taxes
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Conclusion
• Every business in the world has stakeholders, which are
individuals, groups and organisations that affect the company or are
being affected by the company achieving its goals. This can be
positively or negatively, voluntarily or involuntarily.
• Stakeholder management is a key component of strategic CSR. It is
part of the shift towards a broad view of business responsibility and a
more holistic approach to business management.
• There are various corporate stakeholder responsibility levels in
different companies: the rational level, the process level and the
transaction level. We can also see a shift from stakeholder
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