OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPANY BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ASPECT
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Variety of approaches to define enterprise activity’s goals is revealed. The urgency to conform the enterprise activity’s goals to the sustainable development concept is shown. The essence of social responsibility as one of the constituents of sustainable development concept at an enterprise level is revealed. The shift of emphasis in social responsibility studies is explored. The problem of correlation of enterprise activity’s goals in respect to social responsibility with other goals is defined. The approaches to understanding social responsibility of business are presented. The constituents of social responsibility are examined, and the enterprise activity’s goals, relevant for each constituent, are identified. The necessity to consider enterprise activity’s goals in respect to social responsibility towards stakeholders, to reveal the reasons of setting such goals and correlate them with the goals of owners and/or directors of an enterprise is indicated. The examples of such correlation are presented and the reasons of setting such goals are revealed.
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