Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study
ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to identify what strategies businesses employ in response to institutional pressures in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. Relevant literatures on CSR, stakeholder and strategy are reviewed to find the answer. Then, a business case of Primark is studied to...
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This dissertation aims to identify what strategies businesses employ in response to institutional pressures in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. Relevant literatures on CSR, stakeholder and strategy are reviewed to find the answer. Then, a business case of Primark is studied to answer the specific question of how the retailer strategically responding to institutional
pressures in CSR. After analyzing the collected information based on two
selected frameworks, I find out that Primark uses a mixture of strategies to
handle four CSR issues, which are supply chain, Primark effect, climate
change and padded bikini for young girls. In addition, I further have three discussions and suggest for further research.
Key words: Primark, child labour, ethical, supplier, human, rights, sweat shop, CSR, corporate responsibility, sustainability, climate change, environment, recycling,community, Bangladesh, illegal workers, pressure, criticism, Primark effect. |
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| spelling | nottingham-264682021-12-15T14:31:57Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26468/ Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study Feng, Qiang ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to identify what strategies businesses employ in response to institutional pressures in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. Relevant literatures on CSR, stakeholder and strategy are reviewed to find the answer. Then, a business case of Primark is studied to answer the specific question of how the retailer strategically responding to institutional pressures in CSR. After analyzing the collected information based on two selected frameworks, I find out that Primark uses a mixture of strategies to handle four CSR issues, which are supply chain, Primark effect, climate change and padded bikini for young girls. In addition, I further have three discussions and suggest for further research. Key words: Primark, child labour, ethical, supplier, human, rights, sweat shop, CSR, corporate responsibility, sustainability, climate change, environment, recycling,community, Bangladesh, illegal workers, pressure, criticism, Primark effect. 2013-09-11 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26468/1/MBA_CSR_Dissertation-Qiang_Feng.pdf Feng, Qiang (2013) Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | Feng, Qiang Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study |
| title | Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study |
| title_full | Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study |
| title_fullStr | Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study |
| title_short | Corporates’ Strategies to Institutional Pressure in the Area of CSR: Primark Case Study |
| title_sort | corporates’ strategies to institutional pressure in the area of csr: primark case study |
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