Protecting Investment, Profit, and Personnel: Corporations as Social Change Agents

<p>This paper describes a three-level toolkit - <em>The Investment Sustainability Toolkit.</em> The Toolkit assists firms in improving the efficacy of one segment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative by creating at the first level, a strategy of conflict prevention. This strategy is followed by Common Elements of Conflict that Resolves/Becomes Violent, and Key Areas for Stabilization as Level II. The third and final level of the toolkit describes specific initiatives for increasing success, through The Screening Checklist.</p> <p>The paper assesses through case study, the efforts of Firestone, Inc. in Liberia regarding regional development, stabilization, and economic development. This is done through the lens of the 3-levels of<em> The Toolkit</em> and for the purposes of illustrating lost opportunities that a Toolkit framework would have identified by linking the success of all stakeholders. Losses That Look Like Wins are a key focus area within the case study as are times of stability that offer the opportunity to create institutions - civil, political, economic - to perpetuate that stability.</p> <p>This paper makes the case for corporations as social change agents, for preceding violence, and for including a strategy, and a framework, as well as <em>targeted</em> initiatives to increase the success and efficacy of this segment of CSR.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2008

Author dc:creator

• Fotino, Carole C.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Douglas Allen, Ph.D.
• Joan Winn
• Dennis Wittmer

• Conflict prevention
• Investment
• Preconciliation
• Stabilization perpetuation
• Strategic corporate social responsibility
• Transnational corporations
• Business Administration, Management, and Operations
• Economics
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

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• <p>Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.</p>

Language dc:language

en

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/206

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.du.edu:etd-1205