Conflict Palm Oil and PepsiCo’s Ethical Dilemma, 2016, IBS Center for Management Resource, The Case Centre, code 716-0019-1
Questions
Q1. Critically analyse the impact of PepsiCo’s CSR strategy on shareholders, consumers, the environment and local communities, and explain how these stakeholders can impact upon the company’s commitments towards promoting sustainability.
Q2. Identify the SDGs that PepsiCo should target in order to address the negative effects created by intensive use of palm oil in its products and explain how the company’s corporate governance should contribute to achieving these goals.
Q3. Critically analyse the ways in which moral intensity has influenced PepsiCo’s palm oil policy and explain the steps taken by the company to avoid conflict palm-oil using the four-stage ethical decision-making process.
Q4. Analyse PepsiCo’s commitment to zero deforestation using a utilitarian ethical perspective.
Format
• Font Arial 12, line spacing 1.5
• Word count: maximum 2,000 words. Word count excludes: title, contents page, titles of tables and figures, text in figures, in-text references and list of references.
• You must use Harvard Referencing style only.
• Do not use appendices or footnotes.
• Begin directly with the answers. Do not copy the topic and the questions in your answers.
Sources
You should use primarily the case study provided to answer the questions. Some informative sources are listed on page 20. You can use further additional sources considered useful to address the questions.
