Compare the three social issue categories that may impact a company engaged in strategic philanthropy.
What will be an ideal response?
As explained by Porter and Kramer, a company engaging in strategic philanthropy-
-philanthropy designed to also benefit the company, not just the nonprofit--can be
impacted in three broad ways: generic social issues, value chain social impacts, and
competitive context social dimensions. General social issues is the most common way
and even impacts companies in regular philanthropy as well, meaning there is very little
direct impact on the company. The philanthropy targets an issue or entity that is not
related to the company’s business in any direct way. Value chain social impacts,
however, might influence a component of the supply chain (say, helping farmers that
make a product for a global food distributor) and thus affect normal business operations.
The competitive context social dimensions are relevant when the philanthropy is likely to
make the company more competitive, such as influencing potential customers.
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