Corporate Social Responsibility

       

 

.

BUSINESS RESPECT

The free email newsletter on Corporate Social Responsibility

The current edition: In this issue, we look at four common mistakes that marketers make that destroy trust.


Subscribe here

Mallen's personal blog

Arguments against CSR and some answers

Definitions of Corporate Social Responsibility

Discussion

The Global Reporting Initiative - is it fit for purpose?

Translations

In het Nederlands

Companies in the News

Enron, Nike and BP

Case studies of managing a crisis
Odwalla
Johnson & Johnson
and Tylenol

Exxon Valdez
Snow Brand Milk
Products

Emerging Issues

Drugs companies and AIDS
When to quit a bad country

.

Resources for Corporate Social Responsibility

There are numerous documents produced across the world which add to the discussion and debate on corporate social responsibility.

This section provides access to a selection of those resources. I'm also very happy to host here access to those resources which you may have used, or which have otherwise been helpful to you in dealing with this agenda.

Most links are given to documents in their original location on the web. Click on the document icon to go to the resource

pdf icon Mapping the Landscape - CSR issues for the media sector 2008, Media CSR Forum, (524k) Added 6 Apr 2009

pdf icon Prosperity without growth?, Prof Tim Jackson, Sustainable Development Commission, UK, (3000k) Added 1 Apr 2009

pdf icon Telus: Leading the Canadian Telecommunications Sector in CSR, Interdepartmental Working Group on CSR, (184k) Added 12 Mar 2009

pdf icon Undue Diligence: How banks do business with corrupt regimes, Global Witness, (45000k) Added 12 Mar 2009

pdf icon Supply Chain Report 2009, Carbon Disclosure Project, (2600k) Added 12 Mar 2009

pdf icon Fish comes at a price, Rabobank, (360k) Added 11 Mar 2009

pdf icon Marketplace Responsibility Principles, Business in the Community, (2700k) Added 10 May 2008

pdf icon Sustainable consumption - Facts and Trends From a business perspective, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, (1300k) Added 18 Feb 2009

pdf icon New partnerships: how business can contribute to development in difficult local environments, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, (300k) Added 13 Jul 2008

pdf icon Corruption or compliance: Weighing the cost, Ernst & Young, (1400k) Added 15 May 2008

pdf icon Small Suppliers in Global Supply Chains, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, (4600k) Added 27 Apr 2008

pdf icon Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, (400k) Added 27 Apr 2008

pdf icon Proof of the Pudding - benchmarking ten of the world's largest food companies' response to obesity and related health concerns, Insight Investment / JP Morgan, (1300k) Added 13 Apr 2008

pdf icon Corporate Social Responsibility in Canada: The 2008 Ivey-Jantzi Research Report, Ivey / Jantzi, (376k) Added 16 Mar 2008

pdf icon A new mindset for corporate sustainability, Six academics worldwide, BT / Cisco - Bigger Thinking, (479k) Added 20 Jan 2008


INSTANT CSR VOTING!

In the face of an extended economic recession companies will:

keep CSR as a priority

cut budgets, but still focus on key issues

drop CSR as an unaffordable luxury

view results     view past polls

. .
Search Mallen's CSR web site

In the news from the latest issue

US: Obama lobbied over internet censorship

Japan: False labeling in the spotlight again for Nippon Meat Packers

OECD anti-bribery convention largely not enforced

Novartis nears swine flu vaccine but won't donate any to developing countries

Bangladesh: Factories required to control pollution by 2010

UK: Alliance Boots leaves Ethical Trading Initiative

Saudi Arabia: Tobacco companies face compensation suit from smoker

Indonesia: New eco investment index launched

Nigeria: Shell pays $15.5m to settle Saro-Wiwa suit

US: Mattel fined $2.3m for lead on toys

Netherlands: Shell will compensate shareholders for reserves scandal

UK: British business targeted in US bribery investigations

Brazil: Products of Amazon destruction still widely consumed: Greenpeace

Colombia: Drummond disputes accusations over paramilitary support

... more news stories


.. ..


To make any comments / suggestions re. this site, please contact mallen@mallenbaker.net
Site last updated on 30th June 2009



homeissuesnewsletterlinksresourceschange%20agentsnewscurrent%20editionsubscribenewsletter