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Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility
Based around case studies commissioned by EABIS, the book is structured
around major subject areas in the business school curriculum. It
provides a chapter on the relevance of CR to each subject area and
identify CR issues to be addressed.
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Green Meetings and Events Guidelines Drafted
To help businesses conduct more environmentally conscious meetings and events members of the Convention Industry Council have developed guidelines in the areas of Accommodation, Audio/Video, Communication, Destinations, Food and Beverage, Exhibits, Meeting Venue, Onsite Office and Transportation
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Mallen Baker Blog
This site is the personal site of Mallen Baker, a writer, commentator and strategic advisor on corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the chief executive of Business Respect.
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Corporate and Responsible
Lucia Candu's blog on corporate responsibility & sustainability, corporate citizenship and ethical business
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How To: Manage your Supply Chains Responsibly
This How To guide outlines: why responsible supply chain management is vital to the business; the types of risks and issues commonly found within supply chains; and a practical step-by-step approach to meet these challenges.
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Sustainability Partnerships in Agro-Commodity Chains: A Model of Partnership Development in the Tea, Palm Oil and Soy Sectors
This paper seeks to answer the following research
question by developing a model of multistakeholder partnership
development: What determines the ability of private initiatives to
change commodity chains and markets to operate in a more sustainable way?
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The Guide to Industry Initiatives in Corporate Social Responsibility
This report examines leading global initiatives across a range of
industries and tells what works (and pays!), why some multi-company
initiatives are facing serious challenges and why and how companies should
get involved.
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The Effects of EU Climate Legislation on Business Competitiveness
Discussions in the United States around the introduction of a cap-and-trade system to cut greenhouse gas emissions have reignited debates about the potential effects of such measures on industrial competitiveness and job security, echoing concerns voiced a few years earlier in Europe. This report presents qualitative evidence of the analysis of the short-term impact of the EU climate legislation, based on interviews with a cross- section of leading, trade-exposed companies.
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Social Media Advances the Sustainability Dialogue: New Ways to Powerfully Engage Stakeholders
This paper shows the natural intersection between what is happening with the CSR movement and the rise of social media, explores what some companies are doing to change how they communicate, and shows how companies can use their CSR efforts to engage with their stakeholders in ways that enhance trust and reputation.
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Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
The report distinguishes between an assessment of current well-being and an assessment of sustainability, whether this can last over time. Current well-being has to do with both
economic resources, such as income, and with non-economic aspects of peoples’ life (what they do and what they can do, how they feel, and the natural environment they live in).
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Sustainable Value
The report - "Sustainable Value" - looks in detail at how ESG performance impact business success, how companies explain these linkages to investors, and how the investment community treats this
data. It goes on to argue that growing sustainability pressures are likely to make these linkages more important in the future.
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Socially Conscious Consumerism: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge
The Network for Business Sustainability' s research on Socially Conscious Consumerism reveal that consumers are willing to pay an average 10 per cent premium for green goods and services. The project looked at over 30 years of research on what we know and don't know about socially conscious consumerism.
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Corporate Perceptions of the Business Case for Supplier Diversity: How Socially Responsible Purchasing can ‘Pay’
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Managing CSR at Large Companies
A Net Impact panel discusses strategies to advance corporate
social responsibility at large companies including Ford, Starbucks and
Home Depot.
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Sustainable Business Initiatives Session From UK Aware 2009
UK Aware 2009 speaker session on “Sustainable Business
Initiatives.” Among the speakers is Charlie Browne, IKEA UK Environment
Director.
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CSR 2.0. Competitiveness Tool for the Future (in Spanish)
A Fundación Telefónica article that reviews the history of corporate
social responsibility (CSR) and looks at its possible future: CSR 2.0,
which involves the move from communication to the management of CSR and
the connection between CSR and the results account
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How to Embed Corporate Responsibility across Different Parts of Your Company
This report will cover winning methods for encouraging and monitoring corporate social responsibility in operational departments.
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Profits with Principles: Being Socially Responsible Can Pay
This paper highlights the position of Levi Strauss & Co regarding corporate social responsibility and the actions and policy company provide to be socially responsible corporation that supports
environmental and humanitarian causes.
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World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change
The World Development Report 2010 explores how
public policy can change to better help people cope with new or
worsened risks, how land and water management must adapt to better
protect a threatened natural environment while feeding an expanding and
more prosperous population, and how energy systems will need to be
transformed.
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Promoting Energy Efficiency in Europe
The overall objective of the EEW Project is to promote energy
efficiency across Europe by analysing Member States’ national energy efficiency strategies and by highlighting good practice energy efficiency policies, instruments and activities.
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Initiatives guiding sustainable water management in the private sector
Portal for Responsible Supply Chain Management
Portal provides a menu of useful tools and information, to support
practitioners in developing their own approach to Corporate Social
Responsibility in the Supply Chain. It features a set of 'reference materials' such as supplier trainings, codes of conduct and audit related documents.
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Small Suppliers in Global Supply Chains
This report presents findings from a project carried out by the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency during the period June 2006 to January 2008. The objec- tive of the project has been to develop guidelines on how multinational compa- nies (MNCs) can target small and medium-sized (SME) suppliers in their sustain- able supply chain management.
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Danish Law on CSR Reporting
From 2009, large businesses in Denmark are required to account for their work on corporate social responsibility. There is a statutory requirement from 2009 that large businesses in Denmark must take a position on CSR in their annual reports.
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Danish Government CSR Blog
The blog is run by the Danish Government Centre for CSR, a part of the
Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (DCCA) under the Danish Ministry
of Economic and Business Affairs.
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Jonathon Porritt Blog
A professional blog of Jonathon Porritt, who has been chair of the Sustainable Development Commission in the UK and is an advisor to many bodies on environmental matters.
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Opportunity and Responsibility
The report aims to increase the quality and quantity of initiatives taken to support the uptake of CSR amongst SMEs. It captures the state-of-the-art in Europe at the present time and should provide ideas and inspiration for new and better initiatives. It is a contribution to the debate on CSR in Europe and it should help to advance understanding and recognition of the particular role of SMEs in the development of CSR.
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Enhanced Analytics for a New Generation of Investor
How the investment industry can use extra-financial factors in investing
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The Value of Corporate Governance: The Positive Return of Responsible Business
Research by Business in the Community (BITC) reveals a statistically
significant link between effective management and governance of
environmental and social issues and financial performance.
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Leadership and the Triple Bottom Line
Bringing Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility to Life
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Implementing the Partnership for Growth and Jobs: Making Europe a Pole of Excellence on Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. It is about enterprises deciding to go beyond minimum legal requirements and obligations stemming from collective agreements in order to address societal needs.
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Valuing non-financial performance
This consultation report is part of the extensive stakeholder dialogue the CSR Laboratory on Corporate Responsibility and Market Valuation of Financial and Non-Financial Performance is engaged in. It outlines the laboratory's thinking and development of a framework, principles and recommendations for improved dialogue between companies and investors.
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Why Sustainability is now the Key Driver of Innovation
The report by R.Nidumolu, C.K. Prahalad, and M.R. Rangaswami shows that sustainability is a mother lode of organizational and technological innovations that yield both bottom-line and top-line returns.
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