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Key codes, standards and frameworks relevant to the sustainability/CSR agenda
· U.S. EPA 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) >
· 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?
· 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) >
· Sd3 >
o Explore Sustainability > Step Three (Share) >
§ Glossary
· IFZ Interuniversitäres Forschungszentrum für Technik, Arbeit und Kultur (Also English version of website) > Forschung > Summer Academy on Technology Studies (Each year) >
o Proceedings 2003 (Theme was »Corporate Sustainability«; In English; 33 Presentations; 5th Summer Academy) > e.g.
§ Social Sustainability in companies daily business (.pdf, 2003, 12 pp.; By: Ingrid Kaltenegger)
§ How to become sustainable considering ethical aspects (.pdf, 2003, 18 pp.; By: Martin Tschandl)
· 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.)
· Future 500 (San Francisco, USA) »forging links between corporations and stakeholders to advance global citizenship« >
o Publications >
§ Sustainability Tool Kit >
· GreenBiz > e.g.
o All News > Blogs >> e.g.
§ 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 Institute at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia)
o About GS@RMIT >
§ 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) >
· 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.«
· 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 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 Resources >
§ Glossary
· CDM Bazaar >
o Glossary
· ClimateBiz »The Business Resource for Climate Management« >>
o Glossary of Climate Terms (??)
· 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)
· 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
· economie (UK; Head office in Soho, London) »is an international organisation dedicated to the promotion and development of socially responsible investment worldwide.« > e.g.
o Glossary of SRI terms
o FAQ
· 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
· The FORGE Group represents eight major UK financial institutions. They have developed Guidelines on Environmental Management and Reporting for the Financial Services Sector >
o Glossary (.pdf, 4 pp.)
· 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
o Resources for Environmental Management: EuGeos Articles >
§ Socially-Responsible Investment (SRI) & Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility (CSR)
· 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 > Trends in 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)
· 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, UK, Scotland; Director: Rob Gray)
o Associate Directors: Carol Adams, Jan Bebbington, David Collison, David Owen.
o > e.g.
§ The Centre publishes a biannual journal, »Social and Environmental Accounting Journal« (distributed free to members since 1993)
§ 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 (see page 3 of .pdf with 36 pp.)
§ 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 >
§ Business Brief: Intangibles and CSR (.pdf, February 2006, 9 pp.; By: Allen L. White, Senior Advisor, BSR)
· »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.«
· Wikipedia >> e.g.
· BSR Business for Social Responsibility (Based in San Francisco) > e.g.
o Research > e.g.
§ Reports > Corporate 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 >
§ Publications & Tools >
· Corporate Sustainability Governance > e.g.
o 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).«
· 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 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
o Engaging stakeholders - CSR equals corporate stakeholder responsibility (7 November 2006; By Sybille Sachs)
· Europa >> European Commission >>
o Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities >
§ Working for you > 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 >
· Corporate social responsibility > e.g.
o What is CSR?
o 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)
· 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.
· csrnetwork > e.g.
o About us > What is CSR?
· 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
· 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 >
· 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?
· Centrum Etyki Biznesu (Poland) >
o Knowledge Centre > Corporate Responsibility >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility: Overview (Emphasis on Poland and CEE countries)
· Europa > European Commission > Enterprise and Industry > Policy highlights >
o Corporate social responsibility > European Responsible Entrepreneurship Bulletin >>
§ Communicating With SMEs About Corporate Social Responsibility: What term Do You Use? (.pdf, 2007, 3 pp.; Survey results)
· We asked experienced people from different European countries about the term they use for “CSR” when talking to small businesses...
· 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 >
· 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...
· Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (USA) > e.g.
o Membership >
§ Member Tools (available to members only) >
· Sample policies and statements
· Facts and Figures
· 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
· Maplecroft Consulting (UK) >
o Resources > More Resources >
§ Corporate Citizenship glossary
· »an introduction to over 40 concepts that are important to corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility«
· 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)
· DERC Dubai Ethics Resource Centre >
o Resources >
§ 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) > 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 Unternehmen: Partner der Jugend »Das Corporate Citizenship Portal« >
o Corporate Citizenship >
§ Was ist Corporate Citizenship?
· 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 >
· 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)
· Corporate Citizenship - gemeinsam engagiert (Halle, Germany) >
o Informationen >
§ Glossar
· 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 Sobre la rse >
o English >
· 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) > Contesto Teorico >
o Glossario (In Italian)
· Anima (Italy) >
o Glossario (In Italian)
· 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)
· Центру Корпоративного Громадянства (Ukraine) >
o Словник
· 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...
· CSR News (Based in Hückeswagen, Germany) >
o News = csr-news.net >>
§ Down With CSR! Up With Business Ethics! (14 February 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.«
· ERC Ethics Resource Center >
o Resources > Ethics Toolkit >
· 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 news / resources >
§ FAQ (about business ethics and CSR)
· SNEEP Studentisches Netzwerk für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik >
o Wirtschaftsethik > Themen >
§ Glossar Wirtschaftsethik (to come ??)
§ Essays (to come ??)
§ Zitate (Mainly in German, some in English)
· Eurofound European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin, Ireland) >
o Areas of expertise > Industrial relations >
§ European industrial relations dictionary (updated annually)
· »A comprehensive collection of the most commonly used terms in employment and industrial relations at EU level today, with almost 300 entries, featuring concise definitions, relevant contextual information and links to EU legislation and case law«
· European Agency for Safety and Health at Work >
· SAI Social Accountability International's mission is to promote human rights for workers around the world. (SA8000) >
o Ethical Sourcing Resources >
§ CSR and Ethical Sourcing Glossary (under construction ??)
· LOHAS »Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability« >
o Glossary
o Research & Information >
§ Glossary
· SEEP Network (Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network) >>
o Social Performance Glossary (November 2006) includes terms and definitions necessary to understand the social performance of microfinance institutions.
· FSN Fourth Sector Network >
§ Whether in response to intrinsic values, stakeholder pressures, or market opportunities, pioneering organizations across all sectors and diciplines have been transforming themselves and adopting new models and approaches that challenge the traditional sectoral boundaries. The emergence of the Fourth Sector and the For-Benefit model of organization can be seen in the sympathetic patterns among the models and strategies these pioneers are pursuing.
· OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development >
o By Topic > Governance >
· Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises >
o What's new >
§ OECD-ILO Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (23-24 June 2008; Relating to OECD-ILO Conference on employment and industrial relations: Promoting responsible business conduct in a globalising economy) > e.g.
· Documentation > e.g.
o Background document: Overview of selected initiatives and instruments relevant to corporate social responsibility (.pdf, 32 pp.; Prepared by Paul Hohnen)
§ Private CSR initiatives: Corporate Codes of Conduct, Multi-stakeholder Initiatives, Certification and Labelling, Model Codes, Sectoral Initiatives, International Framework Agreements (IFAs), Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Initiatives
§ Standards endorsed by governments (Although approaches to CSR are for each company to determine, government has an important role to play in helping to shape their understanding of what is generally expected of them. At the international level, governments have adopted standards and principles in conventions and declarations which constitute an international normative framework.)
· WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development > e.g.
o Focus Areas >
§ Business Role > e.g.
· Publications > e.g.
§ October 2004; .pdf has 48 pp.
§ Prepared by the AccountAbility for WBCSD
· »This document has been developed in order to provide corporate members with a practical and user-friendly tool on a few key codes, standards and frameworks relevant to the sustainability agenda.«
o Description and interconnection of:
§ Global Compact, UN Human Rights Norms for Business, OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, AA1000 Assurance Standard, SA8000, IS014001, Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, Sarbanes-Oxley Act
· IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development > e.g.
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)
· Pensions at Work (Canada) >> e.g.
o Guide to Instruments of Corporate Responsibility: An overview of 16 key tools for labour fund trustees (.pdf, October 2005, 106 pp.)
§ By Ran Goel (JD candidate, University of Toronto); Project Lead – Wesley Cragg (Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics, Schulich School of Business, York University)
§ »This guidebook is intended to both provide an overview of the selected tools as well as document how institutional investors have used these tools in the past to promote corporate responsibility.«
§ See also related page at York University
· IÖV Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung = Institute for Ecological Economy Research (Germany) >> e.g.
o Significance of the CSR debate for sustainability and the requirements for companies - Summary (.pdf, 16 pp., Summer 2004; Together with Future e.V.)
§ Relations between these concepts: Corporate Citizenship, CSR, Corporate Sustainability and Sustainable Development
· Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät >>
o Institut für Management >
§ Business & Society Portal (Also English version of website; updated ??) >
· Service >
· Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social (Brazil) > e.g.
o English >
§ Management tools >
· Tool Compatibility Guide 2004 (.pdf, 30 pp.)
· The SIGMA Project (Sustainability: Integrated Guidelines for Management) (London, UK, emphasis on UK)
o The objective of Project Sigma is to create a strategic management framework for sustainability, to be applied across all of industry, for eventual adoption at European and international level.
o The aim is to develop the ‘next generation’ tools and standards for the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, drawing together existing initiatives and placing them within a holistic framework. It is hoped that any eventual output will be managed by ISO at the international level.
o The SIGMA Project was launched in 1999 by the British Standards Institution, the leading standards body; Forum for the Future, a leading sustainability charity and think-tank; and AccountAbility, the international professional body for accountability, with the support of the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
o > e.g.
§ Toolkit > e.g.
o The tool maps SIGMA against EFQM, AA1000 Framework, Investors in People, EMAS, ISO14001, ISO14031, OHSAS 18001, ISO 9000, SA8000, AS/NZS 4581, The Natural Step (TNS), The UN Global Compact and the Charter Mark.
· Maplecroft Consulting (UK) »helps companies address their social, environmental, economic and ethical responsibilities through research, training and the development of innovative communication and management tools.« > e.g.
o Resources > e.g.
§ More Resources > e.g.
o »A set of generic ethical, social and environmental policies and guidance, rooted in international and national law and worldwide company best practice, each of which can be adapted to the needs of any business. Policies can be utilised as standalone best practice guidelines, or can be combined as a suite of documents in conjunction with our Principles-plus multi-audit etool.«
§ »Policies and generic guidance materials together for £1000 per issue.«
· SustainAbility (based in London and Washington D.C.) >> e.g.
o Raising Our Game: Can We Sustain Globalization? (May 2007; .pdf has 72 pp.)
§ The report looks out to 2027 to examine future scenarios for the world’s sustainable development, and to propose a new set of rules for business to rise to the unprecedented challenges ahead.
§ See also, e.g. related article at SocialFunds:
· SustainAbility Predicts How Sustainable Development Will Play Out Over Next Two Decades (15 June 2007; By Bill Baue)
· BSR Business for Social Responsibility (Based in San Francisco) > e.g.
o Membership >
§ Working Groups >
o This joint project with BSR and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) explores how the world is responding to sustainability challenges and the implications for the future of businesses.
o Research > e.g.