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BUSINESS RESPECT

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The current edition: In this issue, we review a report on managing CSR issues with small companies through the supply chain.


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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

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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 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

pdf icon Human Rights Policies of Chinese Companies, UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Business & Human Rights, (72k) Added 4 Oct 2007

pdf icon The State of Responsible Business, EIRIS, (515k) Added 30 Sep 2007

pdf icon Tomorrow's Global Company - Executive Summary, Tomorrow's Company, (422k) Added 6 Jul 2007

pdf icon CK Prahalad Response to Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Mirage, CK Prahalad, (97k) Added 3 Sep 2006

pdf icon Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Mirage, Aneel Karnani, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, (135k) Added 3 Sep 2006

pdf icon OECD Risk Awareness Tool for Multinational Enterprises in Weak Governance Zones, OECD, (887k) Added 30 Jul 2006

pdf icon FSC Response to World Rainforest Movement Uruguay Criticisms of FSC Certification, Forest Stewardship Council, (12k) Added 16 Jul 2006

pdf icon International NGO Accountability Charter, (60k) Added 18 Jun 2006

pdf icon Draft Marketplace Principles, Marketplace Taskforce, Business in the Community, (1903k) Added 23 Apr 2006

pdf icon A critical guide to corporate codes of conduct: voices from the South, M Wong, A Leong, J Yimprasert, Asia Monitor Resource Center, (673k) Added 12 Apr 2006

pdf icon A complex reality: The strategic behaviour of multinational oil corporations and the new wars in Sudan, Luke A. Patey, Danish Institute for International Studies, (464k) Added 7 Apr 2006

pdf icon Interim report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprise, John Ruggie, Commission on Human Rights, (112k) Added 20 Mar 2006

pdf icon The New IFC Standard - Will It Raise or Lower the Bar?, Michael Warner, Overseas Development Institute, (72k) Added 19 Mar 2006

pdf icon Under the Influence - Exposing undue corporate influence over policy-making at the World Trade Organisation, Action Aid, (192k) Added 19 Mar 2006


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In the news from the latest issue

Unilever commits to traceable palm oil by 2015

France: Alstom denies bribery investigations

Singapore: Drug companies urged to market responsibly

UK: Shell pulls from huge wind farm project

Exxon Mobil, Lukoil, CNOOC at the bottom for transparency

Australia: Hugo Boss to ban wool produced using mulesing

Organic labelling under attack over addition of food miles factor

UK: Campaigners attack Unilever over palm oil

US: Employees attest to widespread greenwashing by firms

US: Investment banks accused of schizophrenia on climate change

UK: Retailers in tobacco price probe

South Korea: Samsung chairman resigns over tax evasion charges

Anglo American ties safety to managers promotions

France: Carrefour targeted for China boycott call

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