Reflection 1

    In Annotation 1 and 2, I mentioned the two parts of the corporate social responsibilities: economic and ethical responsibilities. In Annotation 3, I will focus on the highest level: philanthropic responsibilities. I keep using Carroll and Buchholtz’s book, Business & Society, as one of the sources. Besides, I will cite the contents of Corporate Social Responsibility, which is edited by Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten and Laura J. Spence, to support the ideas about philanthropic responsibilities.

    Carroll’s definition of philanthropic responsibilities is “being a good corporate citizen, who contributes resources to the community and improves quality of life.” When the companies keep progressing, entrepreneurs should pursue the next stage instead of satisfying the present status. Helping others is what they can do to make themselves grow, and is also an idea about “community involvement.” Entrepreneurs exist in a community, which should be a healthy one. Therefore, they can improve the society by having the philanthropic responsibilities.

Suggestions for the groups:

1.    Tony & Alison: I think that your discussions about the issue are only limited in the areas of political affairs and justice, but reasons for human flesh search have many aspects. Whether this way is justice or not is not clear and easy to explain because it doesn’t have the absolute definition in everyone’s mind. Some people may think that they enforce justice on behalf of Heaven, but in fact, they put others’ lives on risk. Sometimes, this kind of massive human activities would cover the truth instead.

2.    Phoebe & Niki: Showgirl is a job in front of the flash lamp. The destination of showgirls is showing the goods, but they are also considered as the goods in the exhibition. That is, they are materialized. However, there are more and more younger girls following others’ steps to do this job. They want to get attention and become famous with their appearance. From the economic aspect, the society may lose many talented people who can create more profits with their abilities than the appearance.

3.    Knot & Robert: Nowadays, it is important to develop domestic economy because the present world is globalized. If we do not open our market and have partnership with other countries, we would lose the competitiveness. However, it has the risk to a certain degree. I think that the traditional industries need challenges to break out of the antiquated type. The government’s mission is making everyone get substantial fairness or benefit.

4.   Tim & Tim: The relationship between individuals and the society is complicated. There are many rules restricted to individuals for public’s benefits. Mostly, the society is prior to individuals. For public facilities and economic profits, the government would choose to sacrifice the minority. Generally speaking, we should pursue the better life. However, human’s affection is the variation we cannot control. Although we cannot let individuals’ will destroy the order of the society, we should think about “individuals’ will” this element when making a decision. No matter what the purposes are, we cannot ignore the disadvantaged minority.