Leadership theory

Overall

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  Evidence suggests that CSR is not improving over time which is surprising given the supposedly increased interest in CSR issues over the past few years
  
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  CSR is still viewed as essentially philanthropy
  
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  Only 27% of companies produced a social report
  
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  Companies that had a code of ethics did better on CSR than those without yet few produced a social report that suggests that many companies and institutions could better publicise the positive things they are doing through a social report.
  
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  Only 35% of companies had a suppliers code of conduct
  
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  Only 41% of companies applied an environmental code
  
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  Yet 81% of companies said that they had a statement of the company's mission & values (i.e. business principles or vision of corporate responsibility)
  
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  This reduced to 65% when companies were asked if they had a code of ethics or code of business conduct
  
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  This further reduced to 57% when companies were asked whether the code had been distributed to employees and then only 40% of companies had trained their staff on their code.
  
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  71% of companies supported their community in some way
  
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  72% felt that their products were socially responsible
  

Corruption

It cannot be assumed that all companies in highly corrupt countries are low on social responsibility.