Corporate Social Responsibility

Year 13 Business Studies students have been hard at work researching Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in preparation for the first of their A2 examinations in February.

Their brief has been to conduct independent research into CSR following each of the bullet points below:

• the potential benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility relative to the costs for businesses and stakeholders
• the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility relative to other corporate objectives
• the influences determining which responsibilities are accepted by a business and which are not
• the factors that determine the extent to which a business is socially responsible
• the value and limitations to businesses and stakeholders of social reporting
• the extent to which governments should influence Corporate Social Responsibility.

These pages will showcase the best of the work produced by students in the run up to their examination.

Jac Hollingsworth on the value and limitations of social reporting