Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e

Challenge Case Summary

Social responsibility entrails management’s obligation to take actions that protect and improve the welfare of society in conjunction with the interests of the organization. Based on the Challenge Case, IKEA protects and improves its communities through innovation in the conservation of resources as well as the charitable work of the IKEA Foundation. IKEA makes substantial contributions by applying its resource-saving ideas to its own products and processes and by helping its suppliers operate more sustainably. Making such investments in the welfare of society is essential to being a good business citizen. Corporations, however, must also take steps to protect their own interests while making social investments. For example, ...