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Research on Starbucks. Fill in the table below. Expand table cells as needed. Use footnotes to include any publicly available sources of information accessed during your research.
Student Name: _____________________________________________________________
Corporate Social Responsibility of the Company (organization): ___
Starbucks _____
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Company’s ownership type:
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What are the values of the company?
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Does the company have the code of ethics or the code of business conduct? Is it publicly available?
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Can you identify if the company uses any particular CSR approach/ model/standard/CSR reporting approach? (e.g. Triple Bottom Line; Corporate Citizenship; VBA; ISO 26000; GRI)
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From your research: do Company’s business goals complement/contradict their social/environmental objectives?
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Provide brief overview of the current CSR practice (policy/programmes/activities) of the selected company. Please include examples as per approaches in the Figure 8.1.
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Could you determine the relationship between CSR practice and corporate profitability in this company? (Alternative question: what are costs/benefits for the company from having CSR?)
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Is the company a Member of /listed in: Imagine Canada; UN Global Compact; DJSI)?
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Did the company experience the crisis in the past 10 years? How did they manage the crisis (reputation)?
(brief answer)
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Does the company have proactive CSR programme or reactive CSR programme?
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proactive CSR programme __________
reactive CSR programme __________
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Does CSR reporting exist in this company? In what form does it exist? How is it communicated to stakeholders/general public?
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Does the company use indicators to report CSR performance?
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YES__________
NO __________
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Provide examples of their economic/social/
environmental indicators?
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Economic (2):
Social (2):
Environmental (2):
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Are the reported indicators relevant and useful to evaluate CSR performance?
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Did you identify any evidence of greenwashing?
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Based on your research/evaluation of the current CSR programme, is there anything that company could/should improve in their CSR programme from business/social/environmental perspectives?
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