Managers of several large corporations discussed that there are not enough socially responsible to conduct business with. Head of a major corporation said how “he thought it made sense to work with social enterprises but he had underestimated how much effort would be needed to find them.” The reason for the minimal selection of Social Enterprises is because private companies are interested in making profit. In my opinion it is important for companies to become more socially responsible to maintain a positive image. On the other hand, I believe there is no powerful incentive to build a Social Enterprise because living requires financial support and the opportunity cost of spending your time developing a Social Enterprise is too high to ignore. Instead of searching for Social Enterprises, businesses should conduct trade with socially responsible businesses. After all, there must be a half-way compromise. It makes sense to me why some companies do not integrate environmentally friendly equipment, it could be costly and thus interfere with profit making. Especially for public companies, CEO’s are evaluated through profit measuring and so there is pressure to maintain high profit rather than investing in socially responsible equipment and tactics.
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