Ⅱ. General Overview on Tobacco Industry and BAT
1. Why Tobacco Industry Is So Unique?
2. What We’re going to see from BAT’s case
3. BAT’s Social Report
Ⅲ. Two Views on BAT’s Strategy
1. Rational Perspective View
1) Material-resource Environment
2) Social Report as Brand Stretching
3) Effect of Brand Stretching
4) Future developments
2. Natural(Institutional) Perspective View
1) Institutional foundations of Material-resource Environment
2) Institutional Environment
3) Social Report as a way to gain legitimacy from the society
Ⅳ. Consequence
Now it gives us a wonder – why do we do that? 1) Because we really need to set up each department’s existence and tasks like that, to work more efficiently? Or 2) just because other companies are also doing that and we don’t want to distant ourselves too far from them? Then we get two opposing arguments – one is claming that a human being’s act is mainly based on economic purposes, another is claming that major portion of human being’s act is based upon not-so-rational intangibility, rather so called bounded-rationality that sociologist cover to be institutional.

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