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介绍
面对经济全球化和扩大化的业务运营的背景下，作为一个国际化，如何来评估公司的企业社会责任（CSR）的概念逐渐受到全球的关注。跨国公司的全球供应链和供应商代码使用量的增长为带来了企业社会责任标准的扩散，跨国公司将努力确保全球供应商的做法不会损害他们的声誉，与CSR采取的举措，以显示他们的操作达到法定要求，社会规范在本国或国外（胡锦涛，2006）。
Introduction
Against the backdrop of economic globalization and expansion of multinationals’global business operations, there is a growing interest in cross-border efforts for corporate self-regulation. The notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is gaining worldwide attention as an international, universal measure with which to assess companies. The growing use of global supply chains and supplier codes of conduct in MNEs have brought out proliferation of CSR standard, MNEs strive to ensure that practices of global suppliers do not damage their reputation, with CSR initiatives undertaken to show their operations reach the legal requirements and societal norms in their home country or abroad (Hu, 2006).In the context of labour-related CSR, voluntary codes of conduct are used bycompanies to communicate their commitment to a set of labour standards and working conditions. https://www.51lunwen.org/businessenvironment/
劳动力是最直关系着社会企业责任的指标，应努力以确保最小的劳工标准，改善工作条件。创造工作条件以及提供培训机会，遵守法律，使员工没有歧视或骚扰，消除童工和强迫劳动。标准的企业社会责任政策已得到解决的关键问题。公司通过自愿承诺行为守则，希望发出一个积极的信号，对他们的行为，他们的各种利益相关者都起到积极作用（胡锦涛，2006年）。
The most labour-related CSR initiatives are directly or indirectly linked to initiatives that strive to ensure compliance with minimal labour standards or improve working conditions. The most significant developments of corporations have to do withreasonable working time and conditions, compliance with the laws, no discrimination or harassment, elimination of child labour and forced work, training, and others. The standards have been key issues to which CSR policies have been addressed. Through voluntary commitment to codes of conduct, companies hope to send a positive signal about their behaviours to their various stakeholders (Hu, 2006).
China has being a major manufacturing base in the global economy. Many companies in the EU, North America and Australia, where the media, consumers, investors, NGOs and governments are putting increasing pressure on businesses to operate in a socially responsible manner -- have supply chains originating in China (Crijns, 2005). Although China has stringent labour laws, many are only weakly enforced. Working conditions
often include long working hours, low wages and limited health and safety measures (Crijns, 2005). One of the labour standard systems that has attracted considerable attention in China is Social Accountability 8000 (SA8000) (Crijns, 2005). My study will focus on positive and negative influences of SA8000 on Chinese export enterprises in terms of the profit changes before and after obtaining SA8000 certification.
Problem indication:
As mentioned before, in China where labour-related laws and regulations have not beenadequately laid down, large number of companies have problems with workingconditions and industrial safety provided to workers (Suzuki, 2005). It can be said thatcorporate codes of conduct and policies for action have a role to play in ensuringsufficient levels of working conditions and industrial safety for workers in lieu of thelaw. It is significant and at the same time a major challenge to gain understandingwithin such local companies of the standards and values of Europe and the U.S. (Suzuki,2005). And MNCs deal with complex issues regarding maintaining high standards ofworking conditions in supplier factories. A number