arguments against CSR and some answers
Global Reporting Initiative - commentary
This site is the personal website of Mallen Baker, a writer, speaker and strategic advisor on corporate social responsibility and the founding director of Business Respect.
Reply to the Case Against CSR - The Latest Version
(Business Respect - 26 Aug 2010) The Wall Street Journal recently carried a piece by Aneel Karnani, associate professor of strategy at the University of Michigan's Stephen M Ross School of Business. Karnani was the author some years ago of a thoughtful and trenchant critique of the 'Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid' work of CK Prahalad, which I wrote about at the time. Now he has turned his attention to an attack against corporate social responsibility generally..
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How good companies create bad outcomes in the supply chain
(Business Respect - 2 Aug 2010) It used to be all about blame. Company X uses suppliers that have abusive working conditions, or child labour. They are cynically turning a blind eye to evil practices to benefit their bottom line..
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In defence of Tony Hayward
(Business Respect - 12 Jul 2010) BP's oil spill has been a catastrophe with a number of important lessons for other businesses. However, many of these lessons are being lost because of the tendency to simply personalise the problem as being the fault of one man - Tony Hayward. CSR writers and US Presidents alike have cast Hayward into the role of the 'bumbler', the ineffective and irresponsible non-leader, the gaffe-prone idiot. He wasn't simply branded as the 'most-hated' man in America, but also the 'most clueless'..
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What is worse than forcing kids to work in sweatshops?
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