Abstract
Globally, the clocking of the year 2015 marked a significant landmark in the Global Corporate Social Responsibility (GCSR) arena. That is, landmark in policy, research, practice, scholarly and managerial aspects of CSR agenda. This year saw how the ISO 26000 [a corporate social responsibility, CSR guidance standard] had been tested for 5 years since its inception in 2010, yet the MDGs framework has ended. While the intermarriage of these two frameworks (ISO 26000, and, MDGs) provided a basis for refinement of CSR to fit in a global CSR arena as witnessed by Katamba, Nkiko, Tushabomwe-Kazooba, et al., (International Journal of Social Economics, 39, 375–390, 2016) in their works, “Community Involvement and Development: An intermarriage of ISO 26000 and Millennium Development Goals,” the current SDGs framework 2030, presents a need to re-visit the effectiveness of CSR and sustainability interventions in a localized setting, that is, at local, regional or country level. Thus, the purpose/originality of this paper/chapter is to demonstrate how global sustainable development [CSR] frameworks or standards can be localized for refinement of CSR activities. To realize this purpose, the authors have reviewed CSR publications from Uganda to identify how CSR is managed in 50 companies that have won various CSR accolades in Uganda. Then these CSR managementpractices were matched against internationally proclaimed CSR [sustainable development] frameworks notably ISO 26000, SDG Agenda 2030, CEO Water Mandate, and UN Global Compact in order to reveal the development impact realized after these activities are localized. The outcome was a profile of localized CSR activities of various companies. These CSR activities, thru the Adaptive Theory, have been generalized to form, ‘The Most Important CSR Issues in Uganda.’ To bring out the concept of localization, the chapter/paper proceeds to show how companies use these international framework [e.g., SDG Framework] to manage their CSR.
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Dr. Dirk Willem te Velde (Head of Programme—International Economic Development Group) is a Principal Research Fellow and head of the International Economic Development Group. He is the director of Supporting Economic Transformation and a Research Leader for the DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme. He has published widely on trade, investment and economic transformation. He has advised country governments and parliaments in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, and donor agencies such as DFID, European Commission, UN and the World Bank. He was also Team Leader for the European Report on Development (ERD) 2015 on Combining Finance and Policies to Implement a Transformative Post-2015 Agenda.
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The triple bottom line is an accounting framework with three parts: social, environmental and financial. Some organizations have adopted the TBL framework to evaluate their performance in a broader perspective to create greater business value.
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ISO 26000 was introduced by 2010 and it is the international standard guidelines for the organizations /business entities to implement CSR.
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Dr. Annet. K. Nabatanzi-Muyimba is a Senior lecturer and Dean of the Faculty of Management and Public Policy at Makerere University Business School, Uganda. She holds a PhD (Wits Business School), Master of Science in Marketing (MUK), MCIM (UK), and Bachelor of Commerce (MUK). She has special research interests in corporate social responsibility, branding and enterprise competitiveness. She has lectured, researched and published on various topics such as competitiveness and value addition.
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Peter Drucker (1909–2005) was one of the most widely known and influential thinkers on management, whose work continues to be used by managers worldwide. He was a prolific author, and among the first (after Taylor and Fayol) to depict management as a distinct function and being a manager as a distinct responsibility. Drucker is the person who invented management and is nicknamed the “Father of Modern Management”.
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James A.F. Stoner (born 1935) is a professor of Management Systems at the Gabelli School of Business Administration of Fordham University, and the holder of Fordham’s James A.F. Stoner Chair in Global Quality Leadership.
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The IBLF (International Business Leaders Forum) defines “Sphere of influence” as influencing the behaviors and reactions of a person or an organization/system so that the outcomes mirror the visions of the leader. This way, a sphere of control makes it easier to quickly implement decisions
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led organization of over 200 international companies. The Council is also connected to 60 national and regional business councils and partner organizations. Its origins date back to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit of 1992, when Stephan Schmidheiny, a Swiss business entrepreneur, was appointed chief adviser for business and industry to the secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. https://www.wbcsd.org/
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The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) launched in 1999, are a family of indices evaluating the sustainability performance of thousands of companies trading publicly, operated under a strategic partnership between S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM. of the S&P Dow Jones Indices. They are the longest-running global sustainability benchmarks worldwide and have become the key reference point in sustainability investing for investors and companies alike.
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. All 191 United Nations member states at that time, and at least 22 international organizations, committed to help achieve the following Millennium Development Goals by 2015:
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Katamba, D., Wickert, C.M.J. (2021). Corporate Social Responsibility in Uganda. In: Idowu, S.O. (eds) Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68386-3_26
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