Resource Listings

Waste Concern - Turning a Problem into a Resource

The purpose of the case study is to allow students to get a good understanding of the nature of social entrepreneurship as it supports an in-depth discussion on an inclusive (or what some authors might call a “blended”) approach towards value creation that combines social, economic and environmental elements.

Framework for the Future: Understanding and Managing Corporate Citizenship from a Business Perspective

This paper looks at how corporate citizenship can be understood and managed from a business perspective. It provides a framework for approaching this challenge in today’s complex operating environment, an environment that simultaneously poses new risks and creates opportunities for business.

Communicating Corporate Responsibility

This guide provides the ‘golden rules’ to empower communication and corporate responsibility experts, as well as delving into further detail on the use of language, the critical link with corporate values, engaging with digital communications.

Retail: A Sustainability Benchmark

This article is one in a series by Five Winds International about the retail sector’s strategies to improve its sustainability performance and that of its suppliers.

Responsible Business in Poland 2009. Good Practices

Report is a summary of the activities undertaken by companies, institutions and non-governmental organizations in the domain of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development.

Corporate Responsibility & Anti-Corruption: the Missing Link?

These initiatives represent genuine attempts by companies working with stakeholders to address the great environmental, social and ethical challenges of our times.

The Inclusive Business Challenge

Easy-to-use presentation and simulation tool to help companies and stakeholders identify and implement models that profitably engage low-income populations across companies' value chains and develop affordable products and services that meet the needs of low-income populations.

Sustainability Reporting and Greenhouse Gas Management—Sensing Market Trends and Evolution in U.S. Manufacturing

Despite economic conditions over the past year and the failure of the Climate Accord, drawn up as an outcome of the Copenhagen COP-15 meeting, to reduce uncertainty at the international level, the manufacturing industry continues to internalize carbon as a compliance focus and a cost of doing business. Sustainability is also increasing in significance across the manufacturing community in response to multiple stakeholders and regulators.

Translating Environmental, Social and Governance Factors into Sustainable Business Value

Do companies and investors agree on which sustainability factors are material ? Why do these issues remain outside most dialogues between company managers and mainstream asset managers? Are investors asking the right questions?

Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture

The book is founded upon this new definition: sustainability as the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on the Earth forever.