Corporate Social Responsibility - A growing movement across the world

This site is part of the personal site of Mallen Baker - Development Director for Business in the Community.

It is an expression of my own interest and concern in how companies respond to the agenda for corporate citizenship - the growing need to manage issues that affect their business reputation - and to respond to the growing needs and concerns of a range of different stakeholders.

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Recent Articles

Playing games with the Olympic sponsors
Business Respect - 11 May 2008

Unpopular though it may be, I feel compelled to pitch a defence on behalf of the corporate sponsors of the 2008 Olympics. The battering they have taken has been very little to do with corporate social responsibility, and it's time the debate moved on. Read full article

Getting to small companies through the supply chain
Business Respect - 27 Apr 2008

When it comes to corporate social responsibility, one of the biggest challenges remains how to influence the practice of the millions of small to medium sized firms (SMEs). These companies don't go much on the corporate geek-speak of CSR. Many of them struggle to survive on a daily basis. But any multinational corporation knows that its reputation may be on the line if one of its SME suppliers fouls up big time - it is something that now has to be managed. Read full article

Cutting out the fat
Business Respect - 13 Apr 2008

We live in a fat society - and food companies are beginning to accept that although they do not bear sole responsibility for the fact, they have to respond to the issue. Now a new study has compared the responses by ten of the biggest food producers to sort out the leaders from the laggards. Read full article

Will banks ever treat customers fairly?
Business Respect - 31 Mar 2008

I am a great believer of the notion that if you serve customers well, your business will thrive. And yet most people that are customers of the financial services continue to complain about not being well served - and at the same time those providing such services are more profitable than some of the high profile flashpoints for social responsibility debates such as retail - so what's going on? Read full article

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