CSR Case Studies: Nike

The following case study is a great, succint case study of the problem that Nike has as it faces problems of Corporate Social Responsibility.  It's from the mallenbaker.net site, so we should assume that it comes from the angle of being fairly sympathetic to the idea of businesses being serious about CSR.

http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/CSRfiles/nike.html

What is most interesting about this article is the links it then provides.  If you follow some of the references, you can get some interesting points.  For example, by clicking on the reference to the criticism you find yourself at sourcewatch:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nike

Following the links on this site (which looks like a Wiki, therefore probably not too dependable as a source) we get to this:

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/ballinger052407.htm

I don't know anything about The Corporate Crime Reporter, but just from the name I'm assuming that they're probably not too sympathetic with to the corporate arguments against Social Responsibility.  They appear to be a pressure group.  Nonetheless, we get some interesting facts from this site, like the fact that it supposedly costs Nike $10 million to $12 million per year in CSR costs.  That is exactly the figure we were trying to find when we were looking up arguments for bullet point 1 and bullet point 4.