CSR at Starbucks Coffee

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This paper discusses Starbucks' efforts at corporate social responsibility (CSR). The paper analyzes Starbucks' policy regarding employee relations, environmental protection, an ethical means of procuring coffee and community building ventures in supplier nations. The paper reveals that, on the whole, the firm has managed to avoid serious controversy over its operating practices or community involvement. The paper uses this as evidence that Starbucks is making an effort to be recognized as a socially responsible corporation.

From the Paper:

"Starbucks Coffee is indisputably the single largest coffee chain in the world with 15,000 locations around the globe. Starbucks can also be seen at designated spots at airports, grocery stores, universities and hotels. But with big business comes big responsibility and Starbucks is making commendable efforts to display a sense of corporate social responsibility. Not everyone would agree with Starbucks that it is highly ethical and very socially responsible but there has been little rage against the firm's operating practices so it can be argued that Starbucks is doing something right."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Starbucks: corporate social responsibility, retrieved from http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/csr.asp on 6th November 2008
• Ronald R. Sims, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Why Giants Fall (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003)
• Elliot Schrage, and Anthony Ewing, "Engaging the Private Sector," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy 14.1 (1999),

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