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Article: Challenging social responsibility: corporate social responsibility will help to define a firm's success. (Analysis).
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- Chemistry and Industry
- Article date:
- August 4, 2003
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Corporate social responsibility' is a phrase that trips so readily off the tongue, it is easy to believe that the wide range of social environmental and financial obligations it encompasses can be handled with ease.
Many chemical organisations are only too happy to say they take corporate social responsibility seriously. But becoming truly socially responsible is an immensely complex matter for all types of corporations. Organisations in the chemicals industry particularly, often are multinational and their work can have great potential environmental impact.
Corporate social responsibility cannot be put into practice merely by the board handing down an ...