CSR in Japan Anastasya Loseva Anna Kichigina Anna Kuzminykh Maria Teplykh Tatyana Mikhailova
Relationships between company and society
Community and Company Individual Company Japanese type of community US type of community Company = CommunityCommunity = Society
Drivers for a new Japanese CSR ► Imperatives in Japanese society ► Government and peak business leadership ► Globalisation (for Japanese international companies and western corporations based in Japan)
Key dimensions (1990s -> 2000s) ► Environment responsibility ► Community involvement ► Employee relations ► Consumer relations ► Supply chain principals
Employee relations: workplace pathologies ► Long working hours ► Death from overwork ► High suicide rate ► Gender inequality ► Sexual harassment ► Racism ► ‘Whistle blowers’
Nowadays rapid shift from "environmental management and environmental reports" to "sustainable management and sustainability reports"
Recent corporate misdeeds and scandals in Japan