Life Cycle Assessment in Management of Socially Responsible Enterprise

Abstract

The following paper presents dangerous and evident phenomenon of communicational chaos in the field of environment protection and sustainable development in a turbulent external environment. It is pointed that this phenomenon gives organizations an opportunity to take pretended pro-environmental actions, such as socially critical greenwashing. As a counterbalance to those practices, a concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is presented, underlining the possibility of developing honest environmental marketing basing on methods such as Life Cycle Assessment.

Keywords

• corporate social responsibility (csr)
• carbon footprint
• greenwashing
• management
• marketing
• communicational chaos
• turbulent environment
• life cycle assessment (lca)