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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 Best current practices in purchasing - The Apparel Industry, As You Sow, (156k) Added 2 Aug 2010

pdf icon Romanticizing the Poor, Aneel Karnani, Standford Graduate School of Business, (404k) Added 15 Sep 2009

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


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In the news from the latest issue

Indonesia: Nike supplier to pay $1m unpaid overtime to workers

Netherlands: Walmart blacklisted by major pension fund

UK: Warning that lean business models present huge national risk

France: EDF fined for illegal spying on anti-nuclear campaign

US: Surveillance firms attacked for 'we sell to anyone' attitude

UK: Olympics ethical sourcing code attacked for choosing Dow

Japan: Tepco failed to act on risk assessment of tsunami

WHO chief says tobacco firms using dirty tricks to keep people smoking

China: Wal-Mart apologises for mislabelled pork

India: Monsanto sued for biopiracy

Nigeria: Shell linked to military abuses in 1990s

US: Amazon slammed for warehouse working conditions

World's largest companies taking action on climate change

Germany: Stasi documents suggest IKEA used GDR prisoners as slave labour

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