A Review of the of Corporate Social Responsibility of the Global Corporation within the Strategic Management Spectrum

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• To focus on the working of corporate social responsibility within the strategic management spectrum • To find out the current situation of CSR in the management of enterprises with specific foc... us on Nike • To have a focuses on the derivation of the strategic CSR through the analysis of the differences that exist between strategic CSR and the regular CSR • To look upon the current and past researches. • To have an analysis of the ethical considerations in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the strategic management spectrum. • To find out the limitations and scope of future. Extensive and intensive study of the web pages and journal articles done to gather the meaning of CSR and it was found that as much as 37 definitions were used by past researchers. Further, the content analysis was done to have the knowledge about the primary analysis method and to have the quantitative elements like frequency analysis. This method was later adopted for the research. The reason for selecting this method was that it is replicable and it gives the value of summarizing essential information without biases. Further, if is capable of assessing the effects of the corporate context. It may be also seen that this method is flexible and it is applied in various studies such as HR management, stakeholder management and the marketing field etc. Thus, it is summed up that content analysis is used as research methodology here. In case of conducting study regarding any specific company such as Nike, the permission is required from concerned management for visiting the premises, interviewing the participants and taking their responses. The permission is required in written. The participants in the research will be the officials involved in policy making and execution of the company. The said officials will be the managers and executives from the HR and Operation department of the company and total of 55 officials would be selected to obtaining the responses. After the permission is granted from the management of the company, the researcher will contact the concerned officials of the company and will seek suitable time for the personal interview and on the available and decided time, the participants will be accessed for gathering the data. A well-structured questionnaire will be presented to the participants and their responses will be collected on the same sheet. The questions will be close as well as open ended so that the participants have the freedom to put their responses correctly. However, the respondents or the participants of the research will have the option to disclose their information related to their identity, but the same will be kept confidential to present the result in objective manner. There will be no access to the personal information related to the participants to anyone. The complete anonymity will be observed to present the result in the impartial and unbiased manner. The identity i.e. name and position of the respondent will never be disclosed at any moment. The participants will be free to give their responses and it at any point of time, they are not in position to meet the researcher due to stress, anxiety etc., they will contacted in their suitable time when they are free of all sorts of bias. Please give a summary of the ethical issues and any action that will be taken to address the issue(s). The ethical considerations are very much crucial for every research because it acts as guide as to what is to be done, how, when and under what conditions. It prevents all sorts of falsifying information or data. All the secondary data has to be referred with the permission of the original researchers. Only the relevant material is to be added in the research. All personal biases are to be kept aside. In case of Nike, it has been found that there are accusations of the employing low paid workers and keeping them not in good conditions. 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