Once considered the worst in the district, with teachers fearing to go there for classes due to presence of venomous snakes and a haven for anti-socials, a government school in Coimbatore has now become one of the best with 100 per cent result in the 10th standard exams last year. This was made …
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India’s top consultants, Crisil, in its latest “CSR Yearbook”, have said that Indian companies’ attitude towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) “seems to be changing ever so slowly” even though they are “realising that businesses can sustain and thrive only if the communities they serve also endure and flourish.” Noting that in fiscal 2016, India Inc …
Does hearing about a company’s charitable donations raise your opinion of their products? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, corporate social responsibility leads consumers to believe products are better quality.
When companies make public declarations of social responsibility, it can be hard to tell whether they actually change practices or if they exaggerate the impact—a practice known as greenwashing. New research by University of Michigan professors Jun Li and Andrew Wu examined the social outcomes of corporate responsibility efforts. They found:
Absence of granular details is a big drawback, and narrows scope for collaboration. Ever so often, the true test of compliance boils down to how rather than how much was done. The mandatory spending on corporate social responsibility (CSR) prescribed under the Companies Act, 2013, is a case in point.
