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· US EPA = U.S. Environmental Protection Agency >>
o Glossary & Acronyms (Terms of Environment)
· EEA European Environment Agency >
o Eionet (European Environment Information and Observation Network) >
§ Tools >
· GEMET Thesaurus (GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus)
o Glossary = Environmental Terminology and Discovery Service (ETDS)
· European Commission >>
o Environment >
§ Policies > Industry and Technology > Small and medium-sized (SMEs) and Environment (= Environmental Compliance Assistance Programme (ECAP) for SMEs) > Glossary and links >
· UN Statistics Division >>
· Earth Portal >
o EOE Encyclopedia of Earth
· IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development >
o Resources >
§ What is sustainable development? (The Sustainable Development Timeline, Glossary, SD Principles Database, Ten + Ten: Successes and Failures)
· GDRC Global Development Research Center > Programmes >
o Sustainable Development >
§ Definitions, Concepts (Cleaner Production, Eco-Efficiency, etc.; descriptions of more than 20 concepts, with additional links)
· openDemocracy »Free thinking for the world« > globalisation >
o Sustainable development: from word to policy (11 April 2007; Also at MHC International)
§ The notion of sustainability has entered the development lexicon. Michael Hopkins asks why it took so long and how the idea has been transformed in its encounter with reality.
· ConservationEconomy.net is a project of Ecotrust (Portland, Oregon, USA) >
o The Patterns of a Conservation Economy (flash or html map)
· World Bank >> Development Education Program >
o DEPweb »web site of classroom-ready sustainable development materials designed especially for you.« > e.g.
§ What is Sustainable Development?
· Washington State Department of Ecology >>
o Definition >
§ more definitions on sustainability
· Definitions and key concepts associated with sustainable production and consumption (IISD & Government of Norway)
· C4S Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College (Michigan, USA) >
· Yale University >>
· SocialFunds >> e.g.
o Brundtland Report Celebrates 20th Anniversary Since Coining Sustainable Development (11 June 2007; Article by Bill Baue)
o Rio + 10 Series: The Rhetoric of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (23 August 2002; Article by Bill Baue)
§ Sustainable development's amorphous definition may prove a difficult hurdle to gaining consensus on concrete action plans at the Johannesburg Summit.
· Sustainable Measures > e.g.
o Sustainability (»What is sustainability, anyway?«)
· GEM Global Environmental Management Education Center (at the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point) >>
o What Is Sustainability & How Do We Get There? (By Brian Kermath; With a wealth of references and links)
· JFS Japan for Sustainability >
o JFS Indicators >
· Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) > National Centre for Sustainability >
· SustainUs > Web links >
o Sustainability Concepts (the Original Authors)
o Sustainability = What does “sustainability” mean?
· Scientific American >>
o Top 10 Myths about Sustainability (March 2009; By Michael D. Lemonick) - Even advocates for more responsible, environmentally benign ways of life harbor misunderstandings of what "sustainability" is all about
· Wikipedia >> e.g.
· Earth Portal > EOE Encyclopedia of Earth > Topics >
o Business and the environment
· Dictionary of Sustainable Management
o compiled by Presidio MBA students
o features more than 250 must-know terms of sustainable business
· The Sustainability Report (Canada) >
o Two Tomorrows is the name of the new sustainability consultancy formed by the merger of Csrnetwork and Sd3 on 1 January 2009.
o >
§ About us >
o >>>
§ csrnetwork > e.g.
· About us > What is CSR?
§ Sd3 >
· Explore Sustainability > Step Three (Share) >
o Glossary
· CSEM Centre for Sustainable and Environmental Management (Oxhey, UK) >
o Research > Sustainability Papers >
§ Globalisation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development: and the need now for Sustainable Management and Leadership (or in .pdf, November 2002)
· BBRC The Business & Biodiversity Resource Centre > Resources >
o Publications >
§ What is Sustainability? (.pdf, 2000)
o Glossary
· Design Council (London, UK) > About design > Business essentials >
o Corporate social responsibility
· Telegraph.co.uk >>
o Making sense of sustainability (28 June 2007) - At six syllables, "sustainability" is hardly the sexiest word on the planet, yet the term has come to be the year's favourite business buzzword.
· »Duurzaam ondernemen« website (developed by BECO; The Netherlands)
o Also English version of website
o > e.g.
§ »Sustainability ... read about what, how and why«
· Sustainable Business Network (New Zealand) >
o Sustainability >
§ What is a Sustainable Business
· CSI Center for Sustainable Innovation (Windsor, Vermont, USA; GRI Organisational Stakeholder; Founder: Mark W. McElroy) >
o Publications > e.g.
§ The Sustainability of »Sustainability« - A Study into the Conceptual Foundations of the Notion of »Sustainability« (.pdf, March 2005, 33 pp.)
· MIT Sloan Management Review >
o Sustainability > e.g.
§ What is sustainability? (And why does it matter to me?)
§ >>
· Sustainability: Not What You Think It Is (4 June 2009; An interview with Peter Senge) - MIT Sloan's Peter Senge, founder of the Society for Organizational Learning, shows how companies, right away, can stop adopting sustainability measures that do “less bad” and start doing “more good,” both for the business and the world around it.
o See also related
§ Blog post at GreenBiz: Take Care Using the Word 'Sustainability' (13 November 2009; By Roberto Piccioni)
§ article at Environmental Leader:
· ‘Sustainability’ Risks Losing Effectiveness as a Term (11 June 2009)
· Future 500 (San Francisco, USA) »forging links between corporations and stakeholders to advance global citizenship« >
o Publications >
§ Sustainability Tool Kit >
· GreenBiz > e.g.
o Engage >
§ Blogs >> e.g.
· The Eight Biggest Myths about Sustainability in Business (23 November 2009; By Vijay Kanal)
· The Language of Sustainability: Why Words Matter (18 November 2009; By David Jaber)
· The Transformation of Sustainable Development (8 June 2009; By Jane Nelson and Terry F. Yosie)
· Less is More Obvious: Why Sustainability Is So Hard To Define (11 March 2009; By Tim Mohin)
· Defining Sustainability (5 January 2009; By Robert Pojasek)
· Ivey Business Journal (Canada) > Topics >
o Social Responsibility > e.g.
§ Corporate sustainability: What is it and where does it come from? (.pdf, 2003, 6 pp.; By: Mel Wilson)
· »Mix sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, stakeholder theory and accountability, and you have the four pillars of corporate sustainability. It’s an evolving concept that managers are adopting as an alternative to the traditional growth and profit-maximization model.«
· Sustainable Ventures (USA) > Resources >
o Glossary
· Global Sustainability at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) >
o About >
§ Triple Bottom Line Plus One (added governance, as the fourth significant dimension).
§ Descriptions of Sustainability (.pdf has 21 pp.)
· »List of 80 definitions of sustainability from Government, Multilateral Agencies, Corporations and Civil Society.«
· ISA Centre for Integrated Sustainability Analysis (University of Sydney) >
o Education >
· IFAC International Federation of Accountants >> e.g.
o PAIB Professional Accountants in Business >
§ Sustainability Framework (February 2009) >
· SAICA The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants > e.g.
o Technical Information >
§ Legal & Governance >
· Sustainability > e.g.
o SAICA has developed literature on Sustainability = Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (.pdf, September 2008, 309 pp.)
§ Sustainability >
o Sustainability Reporting > e.g.
· ICAEW (UK) »The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales« >
o Technical & Business Topics >
§ Topics >
o What is corporate responsibility? - Find out what the terms ‘corporate responsibility’ and ‘business sustainability’ mean.
· Wikipedia >>
· BusinessEthics.ca (Canada) > Articles >
o Triple Bottom Line - A critique
§ Getting to the Bottom of »Triple Bottom Line« (.pdf, March 2003, 19 pp.; By: Wayne Norman and Chris MacDonald)
· »In this paper, we examine critically the notion of »Triple Bottom Line« accounting.«
· GreenBiz > e.g.
o Engage > Blogs >> e.g.
§ Debunking the Notion of a Triple Bottom Line (31 August 2009; By Robert Pojasek)
· Economist >
o Business and finance > Management >
§ Idea: Triple bottom line - It consists of three Ps: profit, people and planet (17 November 2009, 27 August 2009)
· GEMI (Global Environmental Management Initiative; USA) >>
o Supply Chain = Forging New Links »Enhancing Supply Chain Management Through Environmental Excellence« >
§ Resources >
· Glossary »Specialized terminology for both environmental, health and safety and supply chain management.«
· Environmental Leader >> e.g.
o As a Term, ‘Green’ a Best-Seller, But at What Cost? (3 August 2009)
o Visualizing A Green Network (17 February 2009; By Richard Seireeni, President, The Brand Architect Group)
§ There’s a vast and growing network that supplies partners, support and a market for aspiring green brands. I discovered this network in the process of interviewing America’s top green business leaders for my new book, The Gort Cloud.
§ The gort cloud consists of publications, like Environmental Leader. It also includes green academics, business organizations, NGOs, certifying agencies, special interest groups, green tech, trendspotters, green retailers and, ultimately, eco-conscious consumers.
o Let ‘Lean’ Guide You To ‘Green’ (16 April 2008)
o Is It Time To Ease Off On The Sustainability Talk? (21 February 2008; Relating to the article in The Age)
o Green Terms Can Confuse Consumers (26 November 2007; Relating to the EcoPinion survey from EcoAlign)
· Earth Portal > EOE Encyclopedia of Earth > Topics >
· Pew Center on Global Climate Change (Arlington, VA, USA) >
o Global Warming Basics >
§ Glossary
· Point Carbon >
o Carbon Resources >
· CDP Carbon Disclosure Project >>
o Glossary
· CDM Bazaar >
o Glossary
· KLD Research & Analytics >
o SRI Resources > Glossary
· IRS Investor Relations Society
o Investor relations encompasses the broad range of activities through which a quoted company communicates with its current and potential investors. The constantly evolving requirements of disclosure, transparency and corporate governance create significant challenges for all quoted companies.
o >
§ Glossary
· GreenMoney Journal > e.g.
o Archives > Summer 2007 > e.g.
§ From Socially Responsible Investing to Sustainable Investing (By Joe Keefe)
· KLD Research & Analytics > Resources >
o Glossary
o KLD Papers >
§ Socially Responsible Investing: An Evolving Concept in a Changing World (.pdf, 1 September 2005, 71 pp.; By Peter D. Kinder)
· See also Related article at SocialFunds.com:
o A Semantic Hermeneutics of SRI (By William Baue)
· Kompetenzplattform ARGUS (Architecture of Ratings in Company Related Global CSR/CS for Users and Stakeholders)
o ARGUS is a research project that is accomplished by the Chair of Corporate Finance and the Chair of Information Systems I of the University of Stuttgart (Germany; Prof. Dr. Henry Schäfer und Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Kemper) in collaboration with the “Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt“ (DBU), as the project sponsor.
o Also English version of website
· RI Responsible Investor >
o Archive >> e.g.
§ SRI in the Rockies: US SRI managers shift from ethical to sustainable (3 November 2008; By Hugh Wheelan) - ESG integration increasingly at the heart of US SRI strategy.
· GP Global Pensions Magazine (Incisive Media, London) > e.g.
o Features >>
§ Seeking to define SRI (29 August 2008; By Giovanni Legorano)
· Wikipedia >> e.g.
o Socially responsible investing
· BankTrack »is a network of civil society organisations and individuals tracking the operations of the private financial sector (commercial banks, investors, insurance companies, pension funds) and its effect on people and the planet.« > e.g.
o Publications >
§ fact sheets
· EIRIS Ethical Investment Research Services (Head Office: London, UK) >
o Media >
· Responsible Investment Timeline
· How much public money is invested ethically in the UK?
o For Consumers = YourEthicalMoney - Learn about how and where your money is invested, search for green and ethical financial products, and find out how you can help make finance more sustainable > e.g.
§ Jargon Buster - Explanations for financial terms and issues of specific relevance to green and ethical money.
· SolAbility (Swiss-Korean joint venture) >
o English > Knowledge Room >
· EuGeos »UK-based consultancy« (LCA, EMS, IPPC, etc.)
o Services > Communication tools > Public Environmental Reporting >
§ Environmental and Sustainability Reporting as a Business Tool
o Glossary
· ORSE Observatoire sur la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises (France; also English version) >
o Presentation (= Short Definitions of: Sustainable development, CSR, SRI)
· CSR News (Based in Hückeswagen, Germany) >
o News = csr-news.net >>
§ From CSR to Corporate Sustainability (19 January 2009; By Prof. Stefan Schaltegger)
· CRR Conference (CRRC) >>
o Ebner Daniela and Baumgartner Rupert J.:
§ The relationship between Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility (.pdf, 17 pp.; CRRC 2006)
· MHCi MHC International Ltd (UK; Managing director: Michael Hopkins) > e.g.
o Publications > Monthly Features > e.g.
§ The DEARTH of Corporate Social Responsibility (April 2009)
§ Has the Greening of CSR Gone Too Far? (November 2007)
§ Is Corporate Social Responsibility the Same as Corporate Sustainability? (December 2000)
· MPG International >>
o Sustainable Motivation: Attitudinal & Behavioural Drivers for Action (UNEP / ESOMAR; .pdf has 31 pp., November 2004; Chapter 7.2. = pp. 22-23: »Is CSR equivalent to Sustainability?«)
· CPA Australia (Certified Public Accountants) >
o Technical Resources > Corporate Governance > Topical Issues > Triple bottom line reporting > General information >
§ About relationships between TBL reporting & quadruple reporting & sustainability reporting
· Article at SocialFunds.com:
o Web Design, Lobbying Disclosure Fuel Co-operative Bank Win of UK Sustainability Reporting Awards (23 February 2005; By William Baue)
§ »The award judges distinguished between sustainability and corporate social responsibility reporting, noting that many reports identifying themselves as the former (which are more rigorous) were actually the latter.«
· FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry >
o Media Room > Speeches and Presentations > 2004 >
§ Global Trends in Reporting Framework (.pdf, August 2004, 27 pp.; Presentation by: Sumant Sinha, The Aditya Birla Group; Value reporting, Sustainability reporting, Governance reporting)
· PwC PricewaterhouseCoopers > e.g.
o Our services > Audit and assurance > Sustainability reporting > Of further interest > Corporate reporting >> What is corporate reporting
· UN Global Compact >>
o Integrated (Sustainability) Reporting from the Business Perspective (.pdf, 22 pp.; PwC presentation at 3rd Communication on Progress Workshop (Geneva, 2-3 April 2007)
· Encyclopædia Britannica >> e.g.
o Accounting >
§ Additional Content >
· The Practitioner's Perspective on Non-Financial Reporting (California Management Review, 2006; By Francesco Perrini)
o …From a content analysis of the non-financial reports of 90 multinational companies based in Europe, we sought information about two main questions: How do companies define non-financial reports? To what extent and in what social and environmental dimensions are firms reporting?...
· Cranfield University >> Cranfield School of Management > Research > Research Centres > Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility > Publications > Our Doughty Centre publications >
o Non-Financial Performance Metrics for Corporate Responsibility Reporting Revisited (.pdf, January 2008, 40 pp.; By Malcolm F Arnold)
§ This paper summarises academic and practitioner literature relating to the use of non-financial metrics for the monitoring and recording of corporate social and environmental responsibility performance.
§ Emphasis on the UK
· Spada Professional Services PR Firm (London) >
o Swordplay > Communication > FTSE 100 Sustainability: Big Report = Big Award? (17 November 2008) >
§ Environmental Reporting: Trends in FTSE 100 Sustainability Reports (.pdf, November 2008, 29 pp.) - investigates the terminology, thematic content and length of Britain’s leading corporate reports on sustainability.
· GRI Global Reporting Initiative > e.g.
o Reporting Framework > G3 Guidelines >
· Wikipedia >>
· CSEAR Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK)
o The Centre publishes a biannual journal, »Social and Environmental Accounting Journal« (distributed free to members since 1993)
o > e.g.
§ Research Resources > e.g.
o Social and Environmental Accounting & Auditing & Accountability & Reporting
o Finance and Financial Markets
o Sustainability, Sustainable Development and Full Cost Accounting
o Other Areas
· ACCA Association of Chartered Certified Accountants > e.g.
o General public > Technical activities >
§ Subject areas > e.g.
§ Research programme >
· Published research >
§ RR104 - Narrative Reporting: Analysts' Perceptions of its Value and Relevance (October 2008; .pdf has 36 pp.) >
· Glossary (page 3)
§ Technical library >
· SAN Social Audit Network (UK) >
o SA: What is it? >
§ Glossary
· InterPraxis (Canada) > Services > Social Auditing >
o Overview of Social Auditing (ppt., 14 pp.)
· BSR Business for Social Responsibility (Based in San Francisco) > e.g.
o Research > Reports >
§ All Reports by Category: Global CSR Trends & News:
· Business Brief: Intangibles and CSR (.pdf, February 2006, 9 pp.; By: Allen L. White, Senior Advisor, BSR)
o »The link between intangibles and CSR is intimate and multifaceted. Understanding how value is created through intangible assets is integral to understanding how long-term wealth is created through CSR.«
· Qfinance.com (Bloomsbury Publishing)
o is a unique collaboration of more than 300 of the world’s leading practitioners and visionaries in finance and financial management, providing an unparalleled range of cross-referenced resources, which are sure to satisfy the hungriest of minds.
o > e.g.
§ Governance and Ethics >
· Business Ethics (Corporate Social Responsibility)
· Wikipedia >> e.g.
· BSR Business for Social Responsibility (Based in San Francisco) > e.g.
o Research > e.g.
§ Reports > All Reports by Category: Governance & Accountability >
· The Stakeholder Fiduciary: CSR, Governance and the Future of Boards (.pdf, April 2006, 17 pp.; By Allen White)
o This paper explores how corporate boards do, could and should relate to the CSR agenda.
§ Issue Briefs >
· Overview of Business and Corporate Governance (??)
· Mark Schacter Consulting (Ontario, Canada) >
o Publications > e.g.
§ What Directors Need to Know about CSR (.pdf, 21 pp., November 2004)
· »This paper argues that the discussion about CSR is best understood as a special type of discussion about corporate governance.«
· Strandberg Consulting (Canada; Principal: Coro Strandberg) > e.g.
o Events & Publications >
§ Corporate Sustainability Governance > e.g.
· The Convergence of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility - Thought Leaders Study (.pdf, March 2005, 17 pp.)
· BITC Business in the Community (UK) > e.g.
o Resources > Knowledge: Publications > e.g.
§ Rewarding Virtue: effective board action on corporate responsibility (December 2005; Executive summary; Joint report by Insight Investment, Business in the Community and FTSE Group)
· Download entire report at GreenBiz (.pdf has 40 pp.)
· University of Nottingham >>
o ICCSR International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (UK) >
§ Research > Research Paper Series > View all research papers
· 40-2006: MNC Codes of Conduct: CSR or Corporate Governance? (.pdf, 35 pp.)
o By: Krista Bondy, Dirk Matten and Jeremy Moon
o From abstract:
§ »The data gathered from corporate websites including articulated motivations for code use and code characteristics indicate that corporations use codes as a tool of corporate governance (which may include CSR).«
· EABIS European Academy of Business in Society >>
o The Business in Society Gateway (By EFMD & EABIS) > e.g.
§ Resources > e.g.
· The Integration of Corporate Governance in Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures (February 2009; Authors: Ans Kolk & Jonatan Pinkse; .pdf has 19 pp.; Published in: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management)
· MHCi MHC International Ltd (UK; Michael Hopkins) > e.g.
o Publications > Monthly Features > e.g.
· Global Corporate Citizenship - Working With Governments and Civil Society (By Klaus Schwab; Origin: Foreign Affairs, Volume 87 No. 1, January/February 2008, pp. 107-118; Or as .pdf at WEF, 12 pp.)
o ...Five core concepts -- corporate governance, corporate philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, corporate social entrepreneurship, and global corporate citizenship -- define the different types of business engagement...
· Ethical Corporation > e.g.
o Founder's blog >
§ Does the shift to "sustainability' as a term create a problem? (9 July 2009; By Toby Webb)
o >>
§ Readers' poll: Sustainability is a poor third - CSR still rules the roost in terminology (28 November 2007) - While we all hate three letter acronyms, it seems corporate social responsibility is way ahead of the term “sustainability” in a recent extended EthicalCorp.com reader poll of over 1000 international readers
§ Engaging stakeholders - CSR equals corporate stakeholder responsibility (7 November 2006; By Sybille Sachs)
· CSR Asia – Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia >> e.g.
o CR or CSR - does it matter? (22 July 2009; Feature article by Rikke Netterstrom)
· Provictus (Canada) is a Toronto-based consulting firm that helps small- and medium-sized companies lead from their mission and values. >
o >>
§ CSR, By Any Other Name? (5 February 2010; By Nick C. Morris)
· … So what are the implications when we use names like corporate (social) responsibility (CSR)? Or accountability? Citizenship? Sustainability? Responsible business? Triple bottom line? Corporate social performance? Ethical business? And so on...
· The Business Ethics Blog (by Chris MacDonald) >> e.g.
o Why the "C" in "CSR"? (13 July 2009)
· Europa >> European Commission >>
o Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities >
§ What we do > Partners > Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) > e.g.
· Related Documents >>
o MEMO - What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? (.pdf, 16 March 2009, 3 pp.)
o Enterprise and Industry >
§ Policy highlights >
· Sustainable and responsible business >
o Reference documents >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility (key policy documents)
· BSR Business for Social Responsibility (Based in San Francisco) > e.g.
o Research > e.g.
§ Reports
· is BSR's informative publication about trends and solutions in corporate social responsibility (CSR).
§ Issue Briefs (??)
· BSR's Issue Briefs provide critical summary information on the full spectrum of corporate social responsibility issues. These 53 Issue Briefs are grouped into primary topic areas:
o business ethics; community investment; environment; general CSR; governance and accountability; human rights; marketplace; and workplace
o and in total provide a framework for understanding the most common CSR issues facing companies today. Each area contains an Overview Issue Brief that provides comprehensive information about that area of corporate social responsibility.
· The Issue Briefs are designed as primers. As such each paper provide an overview of the topic and is divided into sections covering:
o business benefits, key developments, external standards, implementation steps, leadership examples, sample polices, awards and recognition programs, and links to relevant resources.
· IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development >
o Publications Centre > Choose a Theme > Business >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Business (March 2007; .pdf has 115 pp.; Author: Paul Hohnen, Editor: Jason Potts)
· CSRQuest project (updated ??)
o This website is dedicated to supporting learning and knowledge development in the field of corporate responsibility and strategic management.
o The Network is co-ordinated by the Economics department of Athens University of Economics and Business
· Parliament of Australia >>
o Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services > Completed inquiries >
§ Corporate responsibility: Managing risk and creating value (Date Completed: 21 June 2006) > Report >
· View the report as separate downloadable parts > e.g.
o Chapter Two – Backgroud >
§ Definitions and concepts
§ Historical context
· Corporations and Market Advisory Committee (CAMAC; Australia) >
o Reports >
§ The social responsibility of corporations (.pdf, December 2006, 182 pp.; Emphasis on Australia, also international, overseas)
· St James Ethics Centre (Sydney, Australia) >
o Responsible Business Practice = The HUB of Responsible Business Practice in Australia >
§ What is responsible business practice?
· ACCSR Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility >
o Resources > e.g.
· ICC International Chamber of Commerce >
§ Guide to ICC 9 steps on responsible business conduct = ICC web based guide on corporate responsibility (.pdf has 51 pp.)
· OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development >
o By Department > OECD Secreteriat > DAF Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs > International Investment > Corporate Responsibility >
§ Corporate Responsibility: Frequently Asked Questions
· TCC The Copenhagen Centre >
o Buzz and fuzz: half-truths about CSR (.pdf)
· Ashridge Centre for Business and Society >>
o Catalogue of CSR Activities: A broad overview (2005; .pdf has 36 pp.)
§ Produced for The Danish Commerce and Companies Agency
§ »The catalogue provides a broad overview of what internationally, especially in Europe and North America, constitutes the most common forms of CSR activities.«
· Entico Corporation Ltd (London) >
o Publications >
§ Corporate Responsibility - Responding to the Global Challenge (2003, online version, also in French) >
· In »Organisations« are cca. 20 articles or views of different well known world organisations about CSR.
· CSRSearch.com >
· CSRinfo >>
o What is Corporate Social Responsibility? (Brief introduction by Liliana Anam; 2008)
· Personal website of David Grayson > e.g.
o Areas of Interest >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility > e.g.
· Definitions of Corporate Social Responsibility, FAQs, Trends
· Corporate Social Responsibility in SMEs - Practical examples to foster SMEs' competitiveness (Europe) > e.g.
· Agenda: Social Responsibility in Scotland >
o What is Social Responsibility?
§ Why Does SR Matter?
§ Scope of SR
· Volunteering England >> Employer Supported Volunteering > Employers >
o CSR and CCI >
§ CSR
§ CCI (Corporate Community Investment)
· GLN Global Leadership Network (Founded by: Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, AccountAbility, IBM, etc.) >
o Help >
§ Glossary
· SB NOW Sustainable Business Network of Washington >
o What is CR / P3 / Corporate citizenship?
· European Agency for Safety and Health at Work >
o Topics > Business aspects of OSH >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
· SDI Sustainable Development International >
o Issues > CSR & Accountability >
§ About Corporate Social Responsibility
· Industry Canada >> e.g.
o Corporate Social Responsibility > e.g.
§ Supportive Information and Links > e.g.
· Corporate Social Responsibility: An implementation Guide for Canadian Business > e.g.
o Part 1 An overview of corporate social responsibility
· CBSR Canadian Business for Social Responsibility >
o Resources > FAQ's > About Corporate Social Responsibility
· Provictus (Canada) is a Toronto-based consulting firm that helps small- and medium-sized companies lead from their mission and values. >
o >>
§ CSR, By Any Other Name? (5 February 2010; By Nick C. Morris)
§ What is Corporate Social Responsibility? A 3-Minute Primer for Leaders (29 January 2010)
· Pollution Probe (Toronto, Ottawa; Canada) >> e.g.
o Is There an “ENGO Case” for CSR? (.pdf, March 2004, 69 pp.; Report prepared by: James Sullivan)
§ Subtitle: »Environmental Non-governmental Organizations (ENGOs) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Seeking Common Ground to Build Consumer Support«
· Part 1 – The Nature of the Corporation (What is CSR?, The Role of Governments, The Linkage between CSR and Sustainable Development)
· Part 2 – Perceptions of Corporations, ENGOs and Consumers
· Ethical Corporation >> e.g.
o What is Corporate Responsibility?
· CRG Corporate Responsibility Group (UK) >
o Corporate Responsibility >
· IABC International Association of Business Communicators >>
o SR LINK – The community, created by volunteers from IABC, to Learn, Inform, Network and Know how to make a difference in communicating social responsibility. >
· Beginner Definitions - Do Your Homework (28 April 2009)
· CREA Center for Reflection, Education and Action (Hartford, Connecticut, USA) >
o Corporate Responsibility (Investor Responsibility, Corporation Responsibility)
· MHCi MHC International Ltd (UK; Michael Hopkins) >
o CSR Services >
o Publications >
§ General
· (Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability, and Society) (UK, Cardiff) > Outputs >
o BRASS Reports >
§ History of corporate social responsibility and sustainability (.pdf, 3 pp.)
o Working Papers > e.g.
§ Linking the environmental and social dimensions of corporate social responsibility (.pdf, 6-2003, 52 pp.; supply chains, IPP)
· University of Nottingham >>
o ICCSR International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (UK) >
§ Research > Research Paper Series > View all research papers >
· Reconstructing the corporate social responsibility construct in Utlish (.pdf, 2006, 42 pp.; By: Kenneth M. Amaeshi and Bongo Adi)
o CSR Road Map >
· Latest Trends in Social & Environmental Responsibilities in Europe (LASER; Secretariat: Nagpur, Maharashtra, India) is an initiative within the European Union’s Asia Invest Programme. >
· IBL Indonesia Business Links >
o FAQs >
§ What is CSR? What is the Rationale of CSR?
· WINGS Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (c/o Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, Quezon City, The Philippines) >
o Information and resources >
§ WINGS publications >
· The Current Landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility - A "mapping exercise" on the definitions, current concepts and practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) worldwide (.pdf, 2008, 56 pp.)
o Download this report by section:
§ Cover and Introduction
§ Section 1 - Synthesis about CSR definitions/concepts
§ Section 2 - Synthesis of CSR-related issues about regulatory practices, compliance, reporting
§ Section 3 - Overview of how CSR concepts translate into practice
· 3A – CSR practices on the ground: Latin America and the Caribbean
· 3B – Broad views of practices by global business networks and others
· 3C - CSR practices at the national level: CSR in the U.S.
§ Annex 1 - Some Definitions and Movers of Corporate Social Responsibility
§ Annex 2 - Some Definitions and Movers of Corporate Philanthropy
§ Annex 3 - Some Definitions and Movers of Socially Responsible Investment
§ Annex 4 - Legal Environment/Reporting of Corporate Social Responsibility
· Centrum Etyki Biznesu (Poland) >
o Knowledge Centre > Corporate Responsibility >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility: Overview (Emphasis on Poland and CEE countries)
· ICCA Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs (Based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) >
o Resources > Publications >
§ The A to Z of CSR: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations (November 2007)
· Publisher: Wiley, UK; Hardcover, 544 pages
· Editors: Wayne Visser, Dirk Matten, Manfred Pohl, Nick Tolhurst
· The book comprises 339 terms, which are split into core concepts, key words and definitions to form the standard reference for managers, academics, teachers, students, officials and volunteers in the field of CSR.
· This is a timely and innovative contribution to the field of Corporate Social Responsibility – the definitive terminology reference on CSR, business society relations and the organizations and standards in the field.
§ The ICCA Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (September 2006)
· Publisher: Wiley, UK
· CSRI CSR International (London) »is a community interest company, conceived in 2008 and formally launched in March 2009 by social entrepreneur, writer and academic, Wayne Visser« >
§ We are in the process of building a CSR Wiki, with hundreds of entries for CSR concepts, codes, standards, guidelines, organisations and publications. (to come ??)
· Wikipedia > e.g.
o Browse Categories > Society > Business >
§ Subcategories: Business Ethics > e.g.
· Corporate Social Responsibility
o See also article at Ethical Corporation:
§ Defining the debate – Corporate responsibility on a sticky Wiki (15 January 2007; Columnists; By Mallen Baker)
o >>
· CMD Center for Media and Democracy (Publishers of PR Watch) > SourceWatch >>
o Corporate Social Responsibility
· factbites »a search engine more interested in content analysis than link popularity« >>
o Corporate Social Responsibility (definitions)
· Context consultancy (UK) >
o What is CSR? (video)
o Publications >
§ Corporate Sustainability in Context: Our pocket sized guide for sustainability managers and their colleagues (.pdf, 2008, 55 pp.)
o Topic Specific Forum > Corporate Responsibility > e.g.
· FabianPattberg.com (manager of SustainabilityForum.com) >>
o Responsible Business Practice Terminology: The Normal Chaos or Total Confusion? (24 September 2009)
· GlobeScan (Global Public Opinion & Stakeholder Research) >
o Research Findings (Free registration required) >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility >
· Definition of CSR in Different Countries
· CSRNYC Information, news and commentary on corporate social responsibility, especially in the New York City area. Maintained by John Tepper Marlin. >> e.g.
o UK vs. U.S. Forms of CSR - Which Is Ahead? (16 February 2008)
· EthicsWorld (USA; Sponsored by the Vogl Foundation) >
o Corporate Social Responsibility > Views and Analysis >
§ Transatlantic Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility (11 April 2008)
· U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USA) > Programs >
o BCLC Business Civic Leadership Center >> e.g.
§ Media >
· Newsletter >
o April 2008 >
§ U.S. vs. EU: How Is CSR Different?
§ >>
· BCLC Travel Journal: CSR in Europe (July 2007) >
o Entry 6: Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility, Part 1
§ ...Today, AmCham Greece hosted a working meeting on how the American chambers in the region could work together to develop a better trans-Atlantic understanding of business and society issues, and again this issue came up – what do we mean when we talk about corporate citizenship and CSR?
§ I explained that when we first began to develop the BCLC program back in the late 1990s, we received an almost universally negative reaction when we talked about corporate social responsibility. For many American companies, CSR carries the connotation of obligation, expectation, and liability. CSR is what non-businesses want companies to do...
o Entry 7: Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility, Part 2
§ So what seem to be the main differences between U.S. corporate citizenship and EU CSR? At the risk of committing very gross generalizations, I would like to submit a few observations for discussion...
· Santa Clara University (California, USA) >> Markkula Center for Applied Ethics >
o Focus Areas > Business Ethics > Online Resources > Business Ethics Articles >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility >
· Corporate Ethics, Governance and Social Responsibility - Comparing European Business Practices to those in the United States (.pdf, Spring 2004, 68 pp.; By: Nathan E. Hurst)
o »To measure similarities and differences I consulted experts in the industry, reviewed literature and opinion surveys.«
· Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (USA) > e.g.
o Membership >
§ Member Tools (available to members only) >
· Corporate Citizenship Briefs
· Frequently Asked Questions
o Research >
§ Managing Corporate Citizenship >
· What is corporate citizenship?
· Corporate Citizenship Management Framework
· Stages of Corporate Citizenship
· ILO International Labour Organization >>
o Employment >>
§ Management and Corporate Citizenship Programme >
· Who are Corporate Citizens
· BITC Business in the Community (UK) > e.g.
o Resources >
· Mallenbaker.net >
o Features >
§ Definitions of corporate social (= Corporate Social Responsibility - What does it mean?)
· Article 13 >
o Knowledge Centre >
· (Glossary of terms used in the field of corporate sustainability and CSR)
· MHCi MHC International Ltd (UK) >
o CSR Services > CSR Definitions
· Ecos Corporation (Australia) >>
· BrownFlynn (Consultancy; Highland Heights, Ohio) >
o Resource Center >
§ Glossary
· CECOA (Portugal) > English version >
o Projects >
§ CSR/SME - Promoting Social Responsibility in Small and Medium Size Enterprises >
o See also:
§ website of La Vida (Hungary; English version; CSR Glossary as Word doc.)
· WEED > Corporate Accountability (Last updated in September 2007 ??) >>
o Convergence of CSR management standards in Italy, Germany, France and the UK by developing and promoting a common CSR framework, terminology and management tools (.pdf, March 2005, 137 pp.)
§ See Part III: CSR Terminology (21 CSR basic terms; pp. 101-135)
· InterPraxis (Canada) > Resources >
o Quotations from Business and Thought Leaders on Ethics & CSR
o Glossary of CSR / Sustainability Terms and Concepts
· Rotman School of Management (Toronto) >
o Faculty + Research > Research Institutes > AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship > Research >
§ The Definitions Project > e.g.
· database showing all the definitions included to date (Definitions are presented both chronologically and by author)
· CSR-Norway >
o Publications > Papers > 2007 >
§ How corporate social responsibility is defined: an analysis of 37 definitions (.pdf, 2007, 14 pp.; By Alexander Dahlsrud; In: Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management)
· Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry >
o Initiatives:
§ CRB Centre for Responsible Business (formerly known as the Dubai Ethics Resource Centre) >
· Glossary
· EECZ Environment-oriented Enterprise Consultancy Zhejiang (China; English and Chinese versions of website; A Sino-German technical cooperation programme, GTZ & Zhejiang Environmental Protection Bureau; 2002-2008) > e.g.
o Download >
§ Cross-cutting Topics > e.g.
· 17 Frequently Asked Questions on Corporate Social Responsibility in China (as .pdf)
· E-Glossary on Environmental Terms (as .pdf)
§ E-Glossary (in English, Chinese and Pinyin)
· CSR in Suzhou >
o CSR general >
§ What is CSR? (.pdf, 5 pp.)
· Lexikon der Nachhaltigkeit (or here; In German)
· respACT »austrian business council for sustainable development« (Austria) >
o Service >
§ Glossar (In German)
· UPJ »ist das Netzwerk engagierter Unternehmen und gemeinnütziger Mittlerorganisationen in Deutschland.« > e.g.
o >
§ Glossar
o CC und CSR Portal:
§ Themen:
· BMAS Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (Germany) >> e.g.
o Corporate Social Responsibility in Deutschland >
· Bertelsmann Stiftung (Germany) > e.g.
o Wirtschaft >
§ Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen > e.g.
· Projekt: Corporate Social Responsibility > e.g.
o Service >
§ Glossar
· Magazin forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften (Germany) >>
o CSR Nomenklatur - Corporate Social Responsibility in der Westentasche (In German; For purchase)
· Ministerium für Generationen, Familie, Frauen und Integration des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW; Germany) >>
o Portal engagiert-in-nrw >
§ Lexikon
· HDE Hauptverband des Deutschen Einzelhandels (Germany) >
o Themen / Inhalte > Verantwortlich handeln - CSR >
o Was ist CSR?
o Was ist CC?
o Lexikon
· sozialengagiert.ch (Switzerland; Website in German) >
o Service >
§ Glossar
· Social Management Systems (Switzerland)
o Thema >
§ Begriffe
· (In German) WorldOne »Definitionen, Instrumente, Initiativen im Bereich Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) und Corporate Citizenship (CC).«
o (also interrelationships between these two concepts)
· Alliances - Pour la responsabilite sociale et environnementale (France; Website in French only) >
· Novethic (France), filiale de la Caisse des Dépôts, est un centre de recherche sur la Responsabilité Sociale et Environnementale des entreprises (RSE) et l'Investissement Socialement Responsable (ISR) et un media expert sur le développement durable. >
o Guides > Glossaire
· Responsables.biz >>
o Glosario
· Forum Empresa es una red hemisférica de organizaciones empresariales que promueven la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE) en las Américas. >
o Que es la RSE:
§ Enlaces de interés
§ Estudios y Publicaciones
§ Preguntas Claves
· Fundación PROhumana (Chile) >>
o Glosario
· Acción RSE (Chile) > Centro de Informacion >
o Glosario
· FBDS Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Rio de Janeiro; = Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development; Also English version of website) >
· Fabrica Ethica (Firenze, Toscana, Italy) >
o Contesto Teorico >
§ Glossario (In Italian)
· Anima (Italy) >
o Glossario (In Italian)
· BilanciaRSI (Also shorter English version of website; Forlì (FC)) - Centro Studi per la sostenibilità e la responsabilità sociale d'impresa in Italia e in Europa. >
· ResponsabilitateSociala.ro (Romania; Website in Romanian only) >
o Resurse CSR >
· The Hellenic Network for Corporate Social Responsibility (Greece; Also English version of website) >
o Γλωσσάρι = Glossary
· SMart Kolektiv (Beograd, Srbija; Belgrade, Serbia) >
o CSR >
§ O CSR-u >
· Razvoj CSR-a
o Resursni centar >
§ Publikacije >
· Pojmovnik Društveno Odgovornog Poslovanja
· FOB Forum Odpowiedzialnego Biznesu (Poland; Forum for Responsible Business; or here) >
o O CSR > e.g.
§ Co to jest CSR?
§ Encyklopedia CSR
· Akademia Rozwoju Filantropii W Polsce (Warszawa, Poland) >
o Vademecum Dobroczyñcy (Spoleczne zaangazowanie biznesu) >
§ Vademecum >
· S³ownik (In Polish)
· partnerstva.sk (Slovakia) >
o Slovníèek (In Slovak only; with related terms in English)
· Spoleèenská odpovìdnost firem - nový faktor firemní konkurenceschopnosti (Czech Republic; Czech Business Leaders Forum project) >
o Zdroje informací > Slovník pojmù (In Czech)
· Соціально відповідальний бізнес в Україні (Ukraine) >
o Глосарій
· Ethical Corporation >> e.g.
o Ethics and corporate responsibility - When Mars meets Venus (13 October 2006; By Invitation)
§ »Are corporate compliance and ethics programmes linking up with corporate responsibility? Yes, a bit, says Phil Rudolph«
· CRO Corporate Responsibility Officer > e.g.
o Topics > e.g.
§ Business Ethics > e.g.
· Culture of Compliance (By David Gebler; Published in CRO Magazine, Fall 2006)
o »CROs address the challenge of creating a unified approach to corporate responsibility.«
· MallenBaker.net > e.g.
o Newsletter = Business Respect > e.g.
§ 20 July 2008 > e.g.
· Can you have social responsibility without ethics?
o ...The point is having a policy, and having a code, is not the same as achieving consistent and reliable behaviours in line with that policy and that code...
· The Business Ethics Blog (by Chris MacDonald, operater of BusinessEthics.ca) >> e.g.
o Down With CSR! Up With Business Ethics! (14 February 2009)
· APEsphere >>
o Has "CSR" become a code word for "profit trumps ethics" (30 May 2009)
· IBEI International Business Ethics Institute >
o Resources >
§ The Business Ethics Primer »is intended to give visitors a better understanding of business ethics. It also offers historical information behind the development of the fields of business ethics and corporate responsibility, as well as other related subjects.«
· U.S. Business Roundtable’s Institute for Corporate Ethics (or at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia) > e.g.
o Publications > e.g.
§ The Masters Seminars in Business Ethics video series features thought leaders in business ethics addressing topics in their particular fields of expertise, including their approach to teaching business ethics. > e.g.
· The Difference Makers: History of the CSR Movement
o with Sandra Waddock
· Stakeholder Responsibility
o with Andrew C. Wicks
· Stakeholder Theory
o with R. Edward Freeman (also transcript)
· ERC Ethics Resource Center >
o Resources > also
§ Ethics Toolkit > also
· EthicScan Canada Ltd. (Toronto) >
o Resource Centre >
§ FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
· »about some of the terms that are commonly used within the field of ethics«
· EthicsCentre CA (Canadian Centre for Ethics & Corporate Policy) >
o Resources >
· IBE Institute of Business Ethics >
o Find out more:
§ Practical Tools for Business Ethics
§ Learning and Training Resources
§ Survey and Report Findings
§ Links to other business ethics organisations