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Social and environmental responsibility strategies of business

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Category: Economy and management

Last Updated on 24 July 2017

Published on 24 July 2017

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A.Yu.Zhulavskyi, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Prof., Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

D.O.Smolennikov, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

N.M.Kostyuchenko, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Assoc. Prof., Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract:

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to identify strategies for social and environmental responsibility of a company according to the existing business opportunities for implementing social and environmental responsibility and according to the readiness of an enterprise to introduce programs of social and environmental responsibility as well as to choose the strategic alternative according to the level of social and environmental security of the region in which the enterprise is located.

Methodology. The results were obtained with the following methods: matrix approach in creating a matrix of social and environmental responsibility strategies of a company; quantitative analysis in determining the capability of an enterprise to implement appropriate social and environmental responsibility; qualitative analysis in determining the readiness of a company to introduce these programs.

Findings. The authors proposed a list of criteria to identify the strategies for social and environmental responsibility of companies. Nine main strategies for social and environmental responsibility of companies were determined in the paper, namely, reactive, defensive, stabilization, minimum responsibility strategy, preventive, growth strategy, accommodative, capacity building, proactive. The authors proposed an algorithm to choose strategic alternatives according to the existing company’s strategy of social and environmental security.

Originality. The authors suggested a two-level matrix of choosing the strategies for social and environmental responsibility of the enterprise according to the following:

1) basic selection criteria upon which it is possible to make conclusions regarding the available development strategy: the capabilities for the implementation of social and environmental responsibility programs as well as the readiness of enterprise to implement these programs;

2) criterion of strategic alternatives choosing, i. e. the level of social and environmental security of the region in which the enterprise is located. Based on this criterion, it is possible to draw a conclusion of prospects of an enterprise’s development and required strategic alternative with the purpose of implementing social and environmental responsibility at an enterprise.

Practical value. The suggested approach allows an enterprise to determine its development strategy to achieve social and environmental responsibility and a company’s readiness to implement social and environmental responsibility programs as well as to choose a perspective strategic alternative.

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