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· CSR Asia »The issues as they emerge in the Asia-Pacific Region«
· ASrIA Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia
· AMRC Asia Monitor Resource Centre
o The AMRC seeks to become a strategic research, education, and information resource partner of the broad Asian labour movement in the struggle for decent jobs, equality, and dignity for Asian working men and women.
o Networks Around the World > e.g.
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§ GC Networks Report on Activities
· IBLF The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
o Regions >
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§ > e.g.
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· UNDP UN Development Programme >
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o Research > e.g.
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· UNEP United Nations Environment Programme >
o Thematic Areas > Business & Industry >
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· Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
§ Focus Areas > Finance > UNEP FI (Finance Initiative) >
· Regional Activities >
o Asia Pacific (Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand)
· Publications > also
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· The World Bank > e.g.
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§ Business, Competitiveness, & Development > e.g.
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o East Asia & the Pacific (??)
· More Resources (= Virtual Resource Centers) > e.g.
o Corporate Governance and strategies for Fighting Corruption in East Asia
· ILO International Labour Organization >
§ Regions and Technical Cooperation (REGIONS) >
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o Regions >
§ >>
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§ Field Programmes in Asia and the Pacific (ASIA)
· Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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· Eldis »sharing the best in development policy, practice and research« >
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§ Corporate responsibility
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§ East Asia & Pacific
§ South Asia
o »Search« might be useful
· Ethical Corporation »is an independent publisher and events producer on business ethics and corporate responsibility.« > e.g.
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§ Corporate Responsibility in Asia Conference
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· CSRwire »The Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire« > e.g.
o CSR Directory > e.g.
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o Asia Pacific > e.g.
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· BITC Business in the Community (UK) >
o What we do > Where we work > Internationally > Global Network >
· University of Nottingham (UK) >>
o ICCSR International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility > e.g.
§ News & Events > e.g.
o Conference, 12 & 13 April 2006, The Prince Hotel and Residency, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
o > e.g.
§ Papers & Presentations
§ Research Papers >> e.g.
· CSR in Asia: A seven country study of CSR website reporting (.pdf, 2003, 47 pp.)
o By: Eleanor Chambers, Wendy Chapple, Jeremy Moon & Michael Sullivan
§ Research >
· Research Areas and Research Projects >
· Brooklyn Bridge-TBLI Group (Triple Bottom Line Investing; Amsterdam, The Netherlands) > e.g.
o TBLI Conferences > TBLI Asia
· Greenleaf Publishing >> The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (JCC) > e.g.
o Issue 24: A special theme issue on Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Economies (India, Malaysia, Pakistan; To purchase)
· The Aspen Institute (USA) >>
o Business and Society Program >
§ CasePlace > e.g.
· Region >
o Asia
· CSR Europe »The European business network for CSR« > e.g.
o Activities > CSR Solutions > Search Solutions >
§ Select Place of Implementation: Asia (28 solutions by December 2007)
· CSR News (Based in Hückeswagen, Germany) > e.g.
o Directory = csr-directory.net >
§ Regions >
· Asia
· Oceania
o Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (The committee is established by the (ASIC) Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001.) > Completed inquiries >
§ Corporate responsibility: Managing risk and creating value (Date Completed: 21 June 2006)
· CAMAC Corporations and Market Advisory Committee (Australia) >
o Reports >
§ The social responsibility of corporations (.pdf, December 2006, 182 pp.)
· The Australian government is studying how best to induce corporate social responsibility (CSR), weighing the balance between regulatory requirements, voluntary incentives, and market-based inducements.
§ Summary of submissions (.pdf, December 2006, 92 pp.)
o Submissions >
§ Corporate social responsibility: Summary of submissions and individual submissions
· PMCBP The Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership (Australia)
· ACCSR Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility is Australia’s leading specialist corporate social responsibility services provider.
· MOSS Models of Success & Sustainability (Australia)
o Seeded as an initiative from Australia’s Inaugural Corporate Social Responsibility Summit (30 November – 2 December 2005), MOSS has been developed in consultation with key Australian stakeholders to support business through education, training and advice to drive sustainability and competitive business success through best practice in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
· Positive Outcomes (Australia) »Our expertise helps you create robust CSR strategies and programs that are aligned with your business goals, »hard-wired« into your daily business and supported by reporting and measurement tools.«
o Positive Outcomes manages and facilitiates LBG Australia / New Zealand - an affiliate of LBG International.
· Net Balance Management Group Pty Ltd. & Net Balance Foundation (Melbourne - head office, Australia)
· SIRIS Sustainable Investment Research Institute (Australia) is a dedicated, specialist research group, providing sustainability and governance investment research and investment product manufacture.
· Deakin University (Australia) >>
o CCRU Corporate Citizenship Research Unit
· RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) >>
o Global Sustainability Institute
· St James Ethics Centre (Sydney, Australia) »is a fully independent not-for-profit organisation which provides a non-judgemental forum for the promotion and exploration of ethics and ethical decision-making. The Ethics Centre works with business, professions, community groups, governments and individuals to encourage and assist them to include the ethical dimension in their daily lives.« > also
o Corporate Responsibility Index
§ developed by Business in the Community (BITC; UK)
§ CRI is a strategic management tool to enhance the capacity of businesses to develop, measure and communicate best practice in the field of corporate social responsibility in Australia.
· The Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative (Croydon, NSW, Australia) »exists to promote a conversation between business and the community on the subject of values and ethics in the workplace.
· BCA Business Council of Australia > e.g.
o Policy Agenda > e.g.
§ Corporate Community Investment (The report released in June 2007 has 149 pp.)
· ACCPA Australian Centre for Corporate Public Affairs
o ACCPA is a membership-based organisation comprising major corporations and organisations, many trading internationally, in Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
o Established in 1990, it is the only organisation of its type in the Asia Pacific region to support, advance and research corporate public affairs as a management function, encompassing government, media and stakeholder relations, corporate social responsibility/corporate citizenship, issues management, internal communications and reputation management.
· AISEA Australian Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability
· »Pro Bono Australia's aim is twofold: to facilitate and increase the level of Philanthropy in Australia and to give Not for Profit organisations the resources they need to run effectively.«
· The Aspen Institute (USA) >> Business and Society Program > CasePlace > Region >
· CSR Europe »The European business network for CSR« > e.g.
o Activities > CSR Solutions > Search Solutions >
§ Select Place of Implementation: Australia (9 solutions by December 2007)
· Centre for Business and Sustainable Development at Massey University (New Zealand) > e.g.
o Research Programme > e.g.
§ (annual, biannual; since 1999) Survey of Corporate Environmental and Social Responsiveness in New Zealand
· Included also short »Corporate Social Responsibility Section« (since 2005)