Strategy & Society

The Link Between Competitive Advantage

And Corporate Social Responsibility

GROUP-6
 Darpan Thakkar(9)
Gagan Sharma(16)
Kritika Pruthi(23)
Group Priya Doshi(35)
Rashika Sardana(38)
members Ronak Rajpurohit(43)
Siddharth John(50)
Vatsal Shah(54)
Corporate Social Responsibility
Emerging sense of responsibility(CSR)

Corporates, now hard press by activists and organization to do their bit

for the society.

An intensive debate explodes and the corporates finally respond.

CSR exploited as an opportunity and a few beautiful words on the

company's website.

With the debate still on and multi-billion dollar conglomerates defining

and coining new terms, there is a start.

CSR a way of companies to give to society and achieve their goals.

Prevailing justification for CSR

Moral Obligation

Sustainability

License to Operate

Reputation
Integrating Company and Community
• There is an inevitable link between business and society

• A healthy business depends on a healthy community to create demand for its

products and provide a supportive business environment

• A healthy society depends on competitive companies that can

create jobs, support high wages, build wealth, buy local goods, and pay taxes

•There is a long-term synergy between economic and social objectives

Integrating Company and Community

Social
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Company
Competitiveness
The Value Chain and Shared Value

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Strategic CSR

Toyota

Microsoft

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The Moral Purpose of Business
The most important thing a corporation can do for society is to contribute to
a prosperous economy

Business has no need to be defensive about its role

However, corporations depend on a healthy society to sustain

Competitiveness

Companies have the tools, capabilities, and resources to have a

major impact on social issues

• Each company should identify the particular set of societal

problems that it is best equipped to help resolve, and from which will

arise the greatest long term synergy with its business

Conclusion

Emergence and awareness of CSR has become increasingly important

to competitive success.

Philanthropic purposes should not be the only purpose but they should
contribute to the society.