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Innovative Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility : = A Narrative Study Exploring How Apparel Industry Managers Describe the Operational Practices Associated with Corporate Social Responsibility within Their Organizations.

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Title/Author:	Innovative Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility :/
Reminder of title:	A Narrative Study Exploring How Apparel Industry Managers Describe the Operational Practices Associated with Corporate Social Responsibility within Their Organizations.
Author:	Banavara, Gayathri.
Description:	1 online resource (162 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-05A(E).
Subject:	Organizational behavior. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355592580

Innovative Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility : = A Narrative Study Exploring How Apparel Industry Managers Describe the Operational Practices Associated with Corporate Social Responsibility within Their Organizations.
Banavara, Gayathri.

Innovative Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility :A Narrative Study Exploring How Apparel Industry Managers Describe the Operational Practices Associated with Corporate Social Responsibility within Their Organizations. - 1 online resource (162 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Globalization and elimination of quotas has influenced the way apparel industry operates with multiple regions becoming more attractive for its resources. The abundance of cheap labor availability increased competition among the buyers/retailers who were responsible for driving profits for the business. CSR is particularly of interest in labor intensive industries. CSR, as the term indicates, has a very broad agenda, from environmental impacts to fair trade and labor rights. Demands by consumers and other stakeholders have forced the apparel industry, its supply chains in particular, to take steps to improve its CSR strategy and implementation. The study will examine the extent to which certain organizational decisions and actions are understood as exploitive or explorative relative to the implementation of CSR. Exploration exploitation theory specifically examines "problems in context of organizations" in order to understand the process of adapting to "things captured by terms such as search, variation, risk taking, experimentation, play, flexibility, discovery, innovation," as well as "refinement choice, production efficiency, selection, implementation, execution" (p. 71). The study uses qualitative narrative research design. Participant vignettes of 11 managers across the apparel industry supply chain was created and analyzed.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355592580Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Organizational behavior.
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Electronic books.

Innovative Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility : = A Narrative Study Exploring How Apparel Industry Managers Describe the Operational Practices Associated with Corporate Social Responsibility within Their Organizations.
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