The Latest Trends in the Corporate Sustainability and its Implications for Czech Businesses

Kroupová, Zuzana Křečková

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“…The combination of food loss and food waste results in a multifaceted issue featuring economic, environmental, social and ethical components (see Girotto, Alibardi, & Cossu, ; Křečková Kroupová, ; Kummu et al, ; Levis, Barlaz, Themelis, & Ulloa, ; Lundie & Peters, ; Marx‐Pienaar & Erasmus, ). Moreover, all members of the food chain, from farmer to consumer, take part in it, as noted by Garrone, Melacini, and Perego () or Göbel, Langen, Blumenthal, Teitscheid, and Ritter ().…”

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Characteristics of food‐wasting consumers in the Czech Republic

Filipová

Mokrejšová

Šulc

et al. 2017

Int J Consumer Studies

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This paper investigates food waste at the consumer stage of the food chain. The authors conducted a questionnaire survey with 259 respondents to identify the key characteristics of food-wasting consumers and to suggest strategies to improve food-wasting behaviour. The results of the survey confirmed that the rate at which food is wasted depends on the age, economic status and education of the person managing food in a household, on the household's income per person and on total household income. Younger people, students, economically active people and people from higher-income households (both per household and per person) waste more, while pensioners waste much less than other groups. However, the sex of the food manager is not associated with food waste. These demographic characteristics should be considered when designing consumer education campaigns focussed on changing consumer motivation and behaviour. This paper also recommends other solutions tailored for specific demographic groups: Younger people and students may be influenced by the actions of opinion leaders within social networks, and technical devices enabling better food management could help them reduce waste. Supporting work-life balance, broadening the network of food delivery services and implementing corporate initiatives that support food waste prevention could help economically active people reduce their food waste.Additionally, offers of ready-to-eat food should be expanded for people with higher incomes. K E Y W O R D Scharacteristics of food wasters, consumer education, food waste, household, sustainable

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Characteristics of food‐wasting consumers in the Czech Republic

Filipová

Mokrejšová

Šulc

et al. 2017

Int J Consumer Studies

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“…1. environment protection (Krause, 2015), 2. employee matters (Křečková Kroupová, 2015), 3. social matters and community concerns (Polcyn et al, 2019), 4. respect for human rights (MacGregor Pelikánová, 2019a), 5. anti-corruption and bribery matters (Sroka and Szántó, 2018) and 6. R&D activities (MacGregor Pelikánová, 2019c).…”

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The Significance of CSR During COVID-19 Pandemic in the Luxury Fashion Industry - A Front-Line Case Study

Cvik¹,

Pelikánová²

2021

EJOBSAT

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COVID-19 has dramatically changed the economic scenery. Despite the austerity measures and decreasing resources, it might lead to an increase of the significance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as the key for sustainable growth and prosperity. The luxury fashion industry is known for its lavish commitment to CSR as expressed by owners and top management. However, the bottom perception is unclear. A longitudinal front-line case study of the perception of the significance of CSR by the low management and customers allows for filling in this vacuum and to comparatively assess the annual evolution from December 2019 to November 2020. The holistic Meta-Analysis using informal open-interview and mystery shopping techniques and the investigative questionnaire with the Pearson Chi-squared test reveals a fragmented and only slightly raised significance of the CSR by the low management and customers. This disappointing finding has inherent limitations and calls for further studies.

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“…The ability to address economic, environmental and social issues, i.e. to address the sustainability of the global society turned into the CSR of a business (Křečková Kroupová, 2015) while contributing to profit maximization, represents the recognition of shared value policies and principles and aims to "a more sophisticated form of capitalism " (Porter & Kramer, 2011). Consequently, the originally simplistic CSR becomes strategic CSR, and the evolution phases are CSR cultural reluctance, CSR cultural grasp and CSR cultural embedment (Olšanová et al, 2018).…”

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“…• environment protection (Krause, 2015), • employee matters (Dvouletý, 2017;Ikram et al, 2019;Křečková Kroupová, 2015), • social matters and community concerns (Mallin, 2018), • respect for human rights (Osei-Tutu, 2019), • anti-corruption and bribery matters (Sroka & Szántó, 2018) and • R&D activities (MacGregor Pelikánová, 2019c).…”

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“…A positive and committed perception of CSR by luxury fashion ambassadors--as shown by CEOs and floor employees--can lead to a competitive advantage. At the same time, only motivated and committed employees lead to satisfied business partners and customers (Křečková Kroupová, 2015) and ultimately actively participate in the advancement of CSR and information about it. Therefore, it can be argued that the pre-requirement of an effective and efficient CSR with ultimately a positive impact on financial results, is the enhancement of awareness and engagement of both top management and employees.…”

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The EU Puzzling CSR Regime and the Confused Perception by Ambassadors of Luxury Fashion Businesses: A Case Study from Pařížská

Pelikánová¹,

MacGregor²

2020

CEBR

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Despite a decades-long discussion about corporate social responsibility ("CSR"), there is little known about the evolution and meaning of the EU law on CSR and its perception by various stakeholders. The two objectives of this paper are: (i) assessing the evolution to the current EU law on CSR and (ii) making a case study about the perception of CSR by businesses from the luxury fashion industry supposed to be the leading CSR force, namely their ambassadors -CEOs and employees facing the clientele in Pařížská street in Prague. In order to address these two objectives, holistic and interdisciplinary research of economic, legislative and academic sources as well as a case study, entailing interviews and mystery shopping was performed. The exploration of the yielded data employed Meta-Analysis, content analysis, teleological interpretation, etc. The critical and comparative review of the evolution of the EU law on CSR shows piecemeal trends and a lack of permanent consent. This leads to the fragmentation and ambiguity, which is matched by the findings of the case study. The perception of the EU law on CSR is done differently by various CEOs of luxury fashion businesses, and there is an inconsistency between their attitudes and those of their employees facing the clientele. Such inconsistency undermines the effectiveness and efficiency of the CSR regime and needs to be corrected. 1 Implications for Central European audience: Although the sustainability projected in CSR is critical, the EU law has undergone a complex and fragmented evolution leading to a partially mandatory framework. The understanding and application of such a framework about CSR and its reporting is a challenge. A Central European case study of luxury fashion industry businesses shows piecemeal trends and a lack of consent, and this even among CEOs and frontline employees of the same business. The implication of such an inconsistency is a decrease in the effectiveness and efficiency of the CSR regime, a devaluation of the CSR awareness and the need for corrections.

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The Latest Trends in the Corporate Sustainability and its Implications for Czech Businesses

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Characteristics of food‐wasting consumers in the Czech Republic

Characteristics of food‐wasting consumers in the Czech Republic

The Significance of CSR During COVID-19 Pandemic in the Luxury Fashion Industry - A Front-Line Case Study

The EU Puzzling CSR Regime and the Confused Perception by Ambassadors of Luxury Fashion Businesses: A Case Study from Pařížská

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