Month of June, 2010

The case explores events in Nigeria related to human rights and involving Shell as a corporation, which were a springboard for Shell’s involvement in the development of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in 2002.

The ASX Corporate Governance Council encourages companies to use the guidance as a focus for re-examining their corporate governance practices and to determine whether and to what extent the company may benefit from a change in approach, having regard to the company’s particular circumstances.

This study provides platform to understand CEO views on the progress, challenges and implications of the journey toward a new era of sustainability.

The project has carried out important theoretical research on CSR issues related to the constructions sector in five countries: Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary and Portugal. The project analyzed 114 best practices within the four focus areas: health&safety, eco-compatibility, supply chain, equal opportunities.

The LARRGE Guide provides an overview of 60  human and labour rights based CSR tools currently used on the European and the global level.

This eleventh edition of Social Developments in the European Union has been devised in two major sections.The first explores the role and place of the EU on the international scene in the midst of these new economic, social and environmental debates.The second part of this edition is devoted more specifically to the European Union’s internal affairs.

This guide, published by CSR Europe, has been developed to capture the necessity of wellbeing strategies in the workplace, showcase best practices from participating companies, discuss reintegration theories and initiatives and provide a comprehensive list of resources on various aspects of wellbeing theory, implementation and EU or national policies.

This guide has been developed by CSR Europe to demonstrate the necessity of developing ageing strategies in the workplace and the need for a legal framework which looks to integrate older people more effectively within the workplace.

The purpose of this case is to introduce students to the management control systems adopted by Novo Nordisk A/S in order to communicate to their employees and other stakeholders what behaviour is desired, and to ensure that their corporate sustainability claims are implemented at the operational level.

The purpose of the case is to demonstrate a strategic approach to sustainable development that connects corporate responsibility to core business strategy and planning to enable sustainable value creation for shareholders and society at large.

The report explores the evolving relationship between business and society, forecasting that societal problems will become more complex, requiring corporate leaders to rework their business, philanthropy and community strategies.

The main purpose of this case is to show how difficult it is to integrate corporate responsibility in the core business processes of a large corporation, even when the business case is strong and approved by the (strong and charismatic) leadership.

The current Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the state of the world’s freshwater resources. It also, for the first time, shows how changes in water demand and supply are affected by and affect other global dynamics.

This report highlights the actions of the top 200 Indian companies in reducing emissions as well as adapting to the direct impacts of climate change. 

Conservation and Sustainable Use provides a practical and integrated approach to carrying out research on the conservation of exploited species.

This paper explores the broad contours of climate resilient industrial development paths. It defines development as an increase in local capacities for production and innovation and argues that the overarching goal of development is the generation of sustainable livelihoods.

The case study examines how the founders of innocent launched a company whose business strategy incorporated their social values from the outset and how they ensured that as innocent grew from a start-up with three founders to a medium-sized company all new employees understood and shared the corporate values of the organisation.

These notes define two terms ʻEntrepreneurshipʼ and ʻResponsibilityʼ, emphasize the values which underline these two concepts, discuss SMEs and some significant segments,  present a compelling business case for responsible entrepreneurship, highlights the ways SMEs are being engaged in responsible practices.

This booklet provides a deep yet simple view of what Corporate Social Responsibility is all about. It can be used to get an overview of the field, it can be used as a background document for discussions on the theme, it can be used as a good basis before planning activity on CSR.

The report includes a number of good practice disclosures from companies’ annual reports.

This publication provides an up-to-date and expanded overview of mandatory and voluntary approaches to sustainability reporting and assurance.

The learning objectives of this case development can be summarised in the challenge of the traditional management of supply chain relations highlighting a possible difference between sustainability and solidarity.

The Discussion Paper includes the results of the survey on Implementation of the Modernisation Directive. It provides an overview of the entities of which the annual report is selected for the content analysis based on their known “Good practice”.

This study seeks to demonstrate the need of involving employees in the implementation of CSR strategies in order to implement core changes within companies.

This report focuses on the extent and quality of information provided by leading companies on the policies and measures they are taking to combat bribery and corruption.

This guide serves to support and inspire Danish businesses in their efforts to report on corporate social responsibility and ensure that it is easy for them to meet the new statutory requirement to report on corporate social responsibility in their annual reports.

This survey was designed to determine the status of CSR professionals in Asia. This report allows those working in CSR roles within companies in Asia to understand how their role compares to others.

The report examines the top ten CSR issues emerging in the next ten years. The 2009 publication of CSR in 10 helps businesses to track and prepare for the emerging CSR issues over the next decade