CSR, Core Business and KPIs

Across the world, both private and public sectors are challenged to meet the ever increasing demand in human, financial and physical capital.  Its supply is limited and its allocation must be done in a sagacious fashion.  
While documentaries like An Inconvenient Truth has raised the general level of awareness, it appears that the second stage [...]

FTSE4good index

A study by Curran and Moran (2007) conducted on companies ‘public profile’ and ‘profitability’ with respect to their inclusion, exclusion and deletion from the FTSE4good index has revealed that; a companies’ inclusion substantially increases both (positive impact), a companies’ exclusion does not impact, however a companies’ deletion will have a negative impact on both. Consequently [...]

CSR Models in Companies

In doing some research for our presentation about CSR today, I came across a wide range of CSR model developed by companies we know and some we know less.  I thought it would be nice to share some of the ones I though explained well their approach to CSR.  It is nice to see that [...]

CSR: Not just a recent phenomena

The term ‘corporate social responsibility’ was coined  in 1953 within Howard Bowen’s book; Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (Bowen, 1953). Thus one could be forgiven for believing that it is a recent phenomenon. However, the concept of CSR has a much longer lineage than generally perceived; indeed the concept of CSR is as old as the history of [...]

Vigeo Group | CSR Audit (in FRA)

–WOW– to be honest, I am not sure we have firms like this in Canada, but the Vigeo Group are, in essence, THE Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) police in France.
Vigeo examined ~ 1,500 European, American and Asian companies with regards to:

Human Rights
Human Resources
Environment
Business Behaviour
Corporate Governance
Community Involvment

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