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Development of Corporate Governance Regulations: The Case of an Emerging Economy
This paper investigates the development of corporate governance regulations in emerging economies, using the case of Bangladesh.
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Global Compact: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises on Their Way Towards Global Responsibility
Ten Danish case stories on human rights, labour
standards, environment and anti-corruption in
international business activities
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SMEs and CSR: An Approach to CSR in their Own Words
This study presents the results of analysis of four case studies on
Catalan companies that stand out for their social and environmental
practices. The conclusions of this paper are the result of dialogue
with the main actors – four medium-sized companies – focusing on their
actions, understandings and resistance with regard to CSR.
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Developing Corporate Social Responsibility: A European Perspective
The rapidly increasing attention devoted to Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) has resulted in the term ‘CSR’ being applied to
myriad dissimilar phenomena. The authors aim to dispel this
confusion by presenting a multi-faceted view of socially responsible
corporate behavior and related themes. »
Corporate Sustainability and the Individual: A Literature Review
This paper introduces the literature and theories of corporate sustainability and how these have been applied at the level of the individual.
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The Global State of Sustainable Insurance
This report offers profound insights on the dynamics of ESG factors and core
insurance processes, the state of play of sustainable insurance, sustainability challenges and
potential solutions, and the many opportunities that remain largely untapped.
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The Sustainable Economy Dialogue
The report contains the results of discussions by 350
senior business leaders who were asked to define the fundamental
objective of a good economy, to examine current failings, and to
explore ways in which the business community might contribute to
remedying these.
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Carbon Management: A Practical Guide for Suppliers
This is a step-by-step carbon management guide for
companies who supply retailers and other major corporations. It helps them respond to increasing
requests from their customers for information about carbon management. It also shows how effective
carbon management can cut costs and bring other business benefits
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The Development of Governance Structures for Corporate Responsibility
This paper by Heiko Spitzeck seeks to explore patterns of integrating corporate
responsibility issues into corporate governance mechanisms and their
development over time.
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Corporate Social Responsibility - National Public Policies in the European Union
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Responsible Entrepreneurship: A Collection of Good Practice Cases among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises across Europe
This brochure is the result of exploratory work carried out by the Commission’s Directorate-General
for Enterprise under its Multiannual Programme for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (5) with the
help of a group of national experts. It gathers 25 good practice cases from SMEs in
16 European countries with the aim of illustrating the richness and diversity of responsible
entrepreneurship practices from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.
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Questionnaire to Raise SME Awareness of CSR
This questionnaire will help companies think about company’s efforts towards responsible entrepreneurship by raising questions on the possible ways companies could improve their
business in a profitable and sensible manner.
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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Economy
The purpose of this white paper is to raise awareness about social responsibility in both the private and the public sectors. The Norwegian Government has a positive impression of Norwegian companies’ ability and willingness to contribute in this area, and the white paper is intended to strengthen this commitment.
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Redefining Corporate Social Responsibility
Many CSR efforts are little more than
PR campaigns designed to promote corporate brands--by creating the
appearance of being "good corporate citizens." Result? CSR investments
that deepen public cynicism and fail to generate real social change.
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CSR: The Role of Leadership in Driving Ethical Outcomes
This paper aims to explain why CSR policies have failed to render
organizations more ethical and to propose concepts for using CSR for
improving the ethics of organizations.
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Embedding Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability - Everybody's Business
This paper aims to deal with the significance of leadership as driver
of corporate responsibility and complementary, dynamic organizational
change. It seeks to focus on the continuous attention required by
competitiveness, and the cultural complexity of renewing business
processes in a global environment
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Pension Funds and Corporate Social Performance
This study examines the relationship between pension fund ownership of companies and corporate social performance using a unique database of more than 500 publicly listed U.K. companies.
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Factors Influencing the Quality of Corporate Environmental Disclosure
This paper examines patterns in the quality of voluntary environmental
disclosures made by a sample of around 450 large UK companies drawn
from a diverse range of industrial sectors.
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Does it Pay to Be Different? An Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance
This study by S. Brammer and A. Millington explores the relationship between corporate social
performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) within the
context of a specific component of CSP: corporate charitable giving.
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Corporate Ecosystem Valuation
This paper by WBCSD refers to the
use of ecosystem valuation by business where both ecosystem degradation and the
benefits provided by ecosystem services are explicitly accounted for with the
intention of informing and improving corporate decision-making.
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Building Business Resilience to Inevitable Climate Change
The report draws upon an analysis of
the responses from global electricity
companies to the 2008 Carbon
Disclosure Project (CDP). Examples
of actions and issues taken from the
responses are provided.
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The Integration of ESG Information into Investment Processes: toward an Emerging Collective Belief?
This paper examines the way new investor led collaborative initiatives are
impacting on the integration of ESG information into mainstream investment
processes and their potential to influence the standard valuation and investment
practices of global fund managers.
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Embedding Corporate Responsibility in the MBA Curriculum
The teaching of the role of Business in Society, Business and Sustainability, or Corporate (Social) Responsibility (C{S}R) as it is popularly known, in MBA
programmes is still in its early stages. Where it happens it is most commonly
found in an elective with, until recently, less than half the student cohort opting
for it.
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Corporate Responsibility and the Media
This paper by David Grayson discusses how CR is covered in the media and the media’s own corporate responsibilities, covering both traditional and new media.
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A Green New Deal for Europe: Towards Green Modernisation in the Face of Crisis
In the face of the current crises, Europe needs a Green New Deal. This
report reveals that the EU is not making the most of the budget and
financial instruments it has at its disposal.
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Towards Sustainable Production and Use of Resources
This report is the result of extensive literature
examination and a thorough review process, involving a number
of experts, to provide a robust assessment of key problems of
production and use of biomass for energy purposes and options
for more efficient and sustainable production and use of biomass.
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The Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey Results 2009
The survey provides an insight into the thoughts and opinions
of multinational and regional organisations with regards to carbon
management strategies and offsetting. The report examines
the critical factors which drive end-users to purchase carbon offsets
as well as the buyers’ desires in terms of project type, location and
standard.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Communication (in Spanish)
Telefónica
article that looks at corporate social responsibility (understood as
the active and voluntary contribution to social, economic and
environmental improvement by enterprise) from the point of view of its
relationship with communications.
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Appraising the Relation between Corporate Responsibility Research and Practice
This paper offers a critical analysis of the relationship between CSR
theory and practice, finding that there is generally little overlap
between the two.
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Leadership for Sustainable Organisations
In this article, Matt Gitsham, Chris Gribben and Patricia Hind argue that to successfully embed corporate responsibility and
sustainability within organisations, there needs to be a focus on developing the mindset and skills of individual managers, rather than simply introducing new policies and procedures.
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Thoughts on Sustainability: Volume 1 Principles Leaning into Process
In this the first volume of Ashridge sustainability thought-pieces,
some of the principles and big ideas that can help meet the profound
challenges currently facing us all are explored. Perspectives on
intelligent growth, happiness and wellbeing, ecological mindset, and
relational sustainability are offered.
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Business Models in a Low-Carbon World
We have not seen the end of risky financial decisions, but have reached the end of a period when carbon became
established as an issue but action appeared optional for individual
governments, businesses and societies. In this publication, the authors present
four assertions that highlight the dangers of complacency.
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ESG in the Mainstream: The Role for Companies and Investors in Environmental, Social, and Governance Integration
In this report the authors assess current perceptions and activities around ESG integration and provide specific recommendations to companies and investors.
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Ideals and Practices in CSR Identity Making: the Case of Equal Opportunities
The purpose of the paper by J. Lauring and C. Thomsen is to report on a qualitative research
illustrating how equal opportunity ideals as part of a corporate CSR
identity project are practiced on the local level.
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CSR Communication: A SME-oriented Approach
The purpose of this article is to examine CSR
communication issues and challenges described in the literature and, on the basis of this
examination, propose the key elements of an approach to CSR communication which takes
into consideration the operational context of SMEs.
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A Guide to CSR in Europe
The country insights included in this guide aim to provide a factual
overview of the status, priorities and trends related to corporate
social responsibility (CSR) in different European countries. The
objective of this document is to provide a brief, yet informative
factual overview of the context for CSR in each country.
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Value of Social Reporting
Lessons learned from a series of case studies documenting
the evolution of social reporting at seven companies
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How Virtue Creates Value for Business and Society: Investigating the Value of Environmental, Social and Governance Activities
This report illustrates some of the ways that the most advanced
companies have created value from their environmental, social, and
governance programs. It also explains why such programs are so hard to
assess quantitatively, and lays out a framework for how companies can
develop programs strategically, meaningfully assess the value they
create, and communicate that value internally and externally.
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Capturing the Green Advantage for Consumer Companies
Consumers everywhere
are concerned about the environment, but will they continue to purchase
green products now that the economy has taken a nose dive? BCG's global
survey of indicates they will.
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High Net Worth Individuals & Sustainable Investment
This timely study, published By Eurosif and sponsored by Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd and KPMG,
highlights a fast-growing segment where investors are seeking returns
while engaging on sustainability issues.
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State of Corporate Citizenship 2009: Weathering the Storm
The 2009 State of Corporate Citizenship in the United States is the
fourth biennial survey of the attitudes and actions of senior
executives in small, medium and large businesses regarding corporate
citizenship.
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KPMG International survey of corporate responsibility reporting 2008
The 2008 survey is regarded as the most comprehensive conducted on this subject to date. In addition to the Global Fortune 250, the sample also included the 100 largest companies by revenue, in 22 countries. The survey presents historical data where possible, drawing from 5 previous surveys conducted by KPMG firms since 1993. Only information available in the public domain was used for this survey, such as company websites, corporate responsibility reports and annual reports issued in 2007-2008.
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Is the Socially Responsible Corporation a Myth? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Corporate Social Responsibility
In this article the author argues that the notion of a socially responsible
corporation is potentially an oxymoron because of the naturally
conflicted nature of the corporation. This has profound implications
for our understanding of corporate social responsibility, what we view
as the relevant issues relating to it, and how we investigate its role
and impact.
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Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization
Business Ethics is a textbook covering the
foundations of business ethics and applying these theories, concepts
and tools to each of the corporation's major stakeholders.
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The Vanguard Corporation
The article is in format of Q&A with Rosabeth Moss Kanter to expand on the ideas presented in the book, whose full title is "Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth and Social Good".
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Executive Education for Responsible Business
The EABIS and Ethical Corporation Special Report delivers a clear understanding of the change
catalysts within executive learning and outlines how institutions are
attempting to reflect the growing demand from business for corporate
responsibility issues to be taught in the mainstream curriculum.
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Corporate Responsibility and Education
Ethical Corporation, in association with EABIS, published a
review of corporate responsibility education, profiling leading
business schools and universities for CSR courses and modules
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Even before CSR, Good Business Schools Were Already Ethical
Trust is fundamental to markets, and to MBA courses
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The Pedagogy of the Privileged
Business schools have done too little to reform themselves in the light of the credit crunch
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Corporate Responsibility: A Business Driver or an Ethical Obligation?
Corporate responsibility is a much-discussed topic. But how well are companies doing – and what does acting responsibly do for them? Emmanuel Perakis examines the evidence
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Sustainable Public Procurement
New report from CSR Europe provides an in-depth analysis of the state of Sustainable Public Procurement in Europe. This report provides insights into European policy making as
well as national implementation of sustainable procurement into CSR
action plans and strategies in two leading countries, the UK and
Denmark. »
Corporate Social Responsibility in China: An Analysis of Domestic and Foreign Retailers' Sustainability Dimensions
In the past decade, a sizeable body of literature has built up on the
concept and characteristics of CSR in
Western countries. More recently, attention has grown for CSR in emerging
countries. China has hardly been studied so far. This paper
aims to help fill this gap by considering the
CSR notion in China, through an exploration of a small sample of large
retailers in China.
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Extrinsic and Intrinsic Drivers of Corporate Social Performance: Evidence from Foreign and Domestic Firms in Mexico
This paper by Alan Muller and Ans Kolk links the management and international business literatures by addressing
intrinsic drivers (management commitment to ethics) in conjunction with
extrinsic (trade-related) drivers for both foreign- and
domestically-owned firms in a single-market setting.
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The Integration of Corporate Governance in Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures
This paper analyses to what extent corporate governance has become
integrated in MNEs' disclosure practices on CSR. Based on an analysis
of CSR reporting of Fortune Global 250 companies, findings show that
more than half of them have a separate corporate governance section in
their CSR report and/or explicitly link corporate governance and CSR
issues.
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Challenges of Governance: The Responsible Corporation in the Global Economy
The
objective of the EABIS series of thought leadership publications is to focus on the state of corporate affairs
and the changing relationship(s) between business, society,
policy-making and management education during the current crisis and in
the emergence from it
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Catalogue of CSR Activities: A Broad Overview
This catalogue provides a broad overview of practical activities that enterprises are undertaking within the realm of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It is the English translation of a catalogue in Danish produced by Ashridge for the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (DCCA) in April 2005
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The Globally Integrated Enterprise
The multinational corporation (mnc), often seen as a primary
agent of globalization, is taking on a new form, one that is promising for both business and society. From a business perspective, this new kind of enterprise is best understood as “global” rather than “multinational.”
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What’s Wrong With Profit?
A new breed of billionaires are out to harness the marketplace as a force for doing good in the underdeveloped world
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Water Scarcity & Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses & Investors
This Ceres/Pacific Institute report, done at the request of the Investor Network on Climate Risk, outlines the wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity and
how global climate change will heighten those risks in many parts of the world.
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A European Eco-Efficient Economy: Governing Climate, Energy and Competitiveness
This
report describes the opportunities for Europe to become a leader in the
global transformation to an eco-efficient economy. It discusses the
imperative for this transformation, examines achievements and on-going
efforts, and advances a set of agenda items for political discussion.
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The Corporate Responsibility Movement
CSR is now an established agenda for large
companies, with a new profession emerging that engages in the social and
environmental contribution of business. How has this agenda emerged over time?
What were the key events and actors? How has this new ‘movement' of committed
individuals been taking shape around the globe?
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Baseline Study on CSR in the New Member States and Candidate Countries
The main aim of this study was to assess the level of CSR practices in the new EU Member States and Candidate Countries. The study was carried out as a part of the regional CSR project “Accelerating CSR practices in the new EU member states and Candidate Countries as a vehicle for harmonization, competitiveness, and social cohesion in the EU” implemented by the UNDP Office in Lithuania together with UNDP Offices and local partners in the Project countries
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