Response As a regular patron of Starbucks, I enjoyed reading your discussion board submission about their journey to become a socially responsible company. Argenti (2013) describes corporate responsibility as a respect for the interests of society by taking ownership for the effects that the organization has on its customers, employees, shareholders, communities, and the environment as a whole. The Starbucks mission statement created in 1990 outwardly expressed their commitment to being a socially responsible company, but their actions, as pointed out by Global Exchange, was saying something else. Did you find it interesting, like I did, that Starbucks’ CEO believed that their shareholders would not be as acceptable of the change because