eco.nomics.edu, Inc.

It’s only a fifteen page document and well worth a read as another stake in the ground for the accelerating development of CSR as a core business consideration. It never goes as far as many stakeholders would have liked it to, but then again it never was. For me it’s a pretty well balanced carrot and stick approach that owes much to work already done for ISO 26000.

There is one particular paragraph that sums up the ethos of CSR beyond the above definition...

MANILA, Philippines — Maersk Line has won an award for ‘best integration of sustainability in company strategy’ during the 2011 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards, hosted by the Danish ‘CSR Foundation.’

The carrier bagged the prestigious CSR Strategy Award 2011. The prize is sponsored by KPMG and recognizes Maersk Line for integrating sustainability and CSR into the overall company strategy and business conduct.

The CSR Foundation works with businesses and organiz...

One year into the Comprehensive Spending Review and many public bodies still do not have an effective strategy to deal with the new era of financial constraint. Simply salami slicing budgets isn’t going to work

Almost exactly a year ago, George Osborne unveiled the details of the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review, and set out how the government would attempt to cut an average of 19% from departmental budgets.

In many ways it ushered in a new era – with everything f...

Environmental NGOs have often been perceived as anti-business, anti-growth, tree-loving, bunny-huggers. However, they have evolved to become organized, structured and strategic. Instead of always standing outside with protest signs, NGOs can actually work with companies to help implement their CSR initiatives. This is happening more commonly than previously imagined. Watchdog organizations not only put the pressure on companies to clean up their act but also act as facilit...

IMPROVED MEASUREMENT of gains from corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs is needed but not to the point that government be called in to regulate such efforts, business leaders said in a forum yesterday.

We should be part of the solution to economic problems. We also have to close the gap of trust in the society, if not the rise against capitalism will only intensify,” Ayala Corp. President Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala said at the second day of the 10th Asian F...

COMPANIES SHOULD improve their public outreach programs amid worsening sentiments against corporations across the globe, management experts at a forum yesterday said.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs increasingly need to be integrated as part of the business’ supply chain and not just be implemented as one-off dole-outs, ...