Recently added articles from The Journal of Corporate Citizenship:
A journal that makes a difference.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Announcing the tenureship as General Editors of David Cooperrider and Ronald Fry, who will take over from Malcolm McIntosh IN HER SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS OF THE corporate citizenship movement, Sandra Waddock celebrates and documents the lives of The Difference Makers--the courageous ...
Editorial.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Landmarks in the history of corporate citizenship: 'a slippery slope' LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE company has had another excellent year. Profits have again been below those of our major competitors as a result of our heavy investment in research and development and in enhancing ...
World review: October-December 2008: a synopsis of the key strategic developments in corporate responsibility around the globe over the last quarter.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Looking East AS 2008 DREW TO A CLOSE, SOME OF THE long-term implications of the financial crisis were beginning to be seen. The shift of economic power from the West to 'the rest', which had been chronicled or predicted for some time, appeared now to be inevitable, as Western ...
From corporate responsibility to corporate design: rethinking the purpose of the corporation.(Turning Point)
Mar 22, 2009; ... THESE ARE TRYING TIMES FOR CSR (corporate social responsibility). Two decades after its conception, one senses among many a kind of fatigue, impatience, even despair about the limits of CSR. A recent meta-study finds no evidence that CSR consistently yields positive returns to companies ...
The Amnesty International UK Business Group: putting Human Rights on the corporate agenda.(Turning Point)
Mar 22, 2009; ... THE PRIVATISATION OF THE WORLD economy which followed the ending of the Cold War made the corporate sector a more important international influence on human rights for good or ill than almost any other constituency. Through its spreading supply chains it touched directly the lives of ...
Making a difference? Corporate responsibility as a social movement.
Mar 22, 2009; ... This paper explores the ways in which the current emphasis on corporate responsibility constitutes a social movement by using the elements that constitute social movements to illustrate how a group of pioneers created new organisations and institutions that push companies in the direction ...
Mainstream or daydream? The future for responsible investing.
Mar 22, 2009; ... This essay updates a 2002 article entitled 'Envisioning Socially Responsible Investing: A Model for 2006', published in the Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Part One highlights developments in the corporate, institutional investor and financial communities, marking the progress of ...
What the papers say: trends in sustainability: a comparative analysis of 115 leading national newspapers worldwide.
Mar 22, 2009; ... This paper presents an overview of the results of a longitudinal analysis of the coverage of sustainability-related concepts in 115 leading national newspapers worldwide between January 1990 and July 2008--covering approximately 20,500,000 articles in 340,000 newspaper issues in 39 ...
Moving the capital markets: the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
Mar 22, 2009; ... THE PRIMA FACIE CASE FOR INVESTORS TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE change is clear. Companies may be affected by the weather-related impacts of climate change (e.g. droughts, floods, storms, rising sea levels), public policy measures directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and consumer ...
Taking Prahalad high-tech: the emergence and evolution of global corporate citizenship in the IT industry.
Mar 22, 2009; ... In this paper, I analyse the emergence and evolution of e-Inclusion, HP's flagship global corporate citizenship programme, as a landmark in the history of corporate citizenship in the IT industry. This programme, which existed from 2000 to 2005, was the first explicit attempt by a major ...
Holger Backhaus-Maul, Christiane Biedermann, Stefan Nahrlich and Judith Polterauer (eds.): Corporate Citizenship in Deutschland: Bilanz und Perspektiven.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Holger Backhaus-Maul, Christiane Biedermann, Stefan Nahrlich and Judith Polterauer (eds.) Corporate Citizenship in Deutschland: Bilanz und Perspektiven Wiesbaden: VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, 541 pp paper [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Editorial.(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THE SEARCH FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARY language is at the core of the corporate responsibility discourse. Corporate citizenship has contributed a particular dimension to the debate by positioning companies in an active political space, even if the term is sometimes used merely as an aspirational ...
Hungry bubbles.(World Review)
Dec 22, 2008 ... MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. BY MID-2008 money was certainly making the world go round, first in a spin, then a downward spiral. The financial system really unravelled in the third quarter of the year. More on that later: that's if the financial system hasn't collapsed and with it the postal ...
From bail-outs to better capitalism.(World Review)
Dec 22, 2008 ... PEOPLE BEGAN TO REALISE JUST HOW bad the situation with the financial industry was when governments began bailing out major banks and insurers. They started in the us, in March, with investment bank Bear Stearns. Then, in the space of ten days in September, the two mortgage giants Fannie ...
The end of financial triumphalism.(World Review)
Dec 22, 2008 ... TIME WILL TELL WHAT THE LESSONS OF the financial crisis really are. One way of exploring the lessons is to look at how people were apportioning the blame at the time. From lenders to investors to regulators, it seemed everyone had blood on their hands. As Bill Gross, chief investment ...
Beyond the Western financial crisis.(World Review)
Dec 22, 2008 ... 'THE CREDIT CRUNCH IS CREATING A new world order in banking and finance ... It's a world in which the Chinese state, if it co-ordinated the investments of its cash-rich institutions, could end up owning more-or-less the entire financial system of the us and the UK.' That was the view of ...
Rainbows in the storm.(World Review)
Dec 22, 2008 ... AS MONEY WAS SUCH A DOMINANT issue in the third quarter of the year, let us round up some of the news in the socially responsible investing (SRI) field that caught our eye. Because, even though the financial crisis has overshadowed all other stories for all types of investors, there was no ...
Rent-a-geek.(World Review)
Dec 22, 2008 ... 'WE SEE THINGS AS WE ARE, NOT AS THEY are' it says in the Talmud. If we are someone who wants to benefit from society's resources and respect, and who therefore associates with the people, organisations and ideas 'in power', how will we see 'things'? Will we see them in a way that accepts, ...
Employment, not microcredit, is the solution.(Turning Point)
Dec 22, 2008; ... MICROCREDIT IS THE NEWEST SILVER bullet for alleviating poverty. The Nobel Peace Price for 2006 was awarded to the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and its founder Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer of the microcredit movement. The Nobel Committee affirmed that microcredit must play 'a major part' in ...
Measuring corporate sustainability: an analysis of the research practices used by two Belgian asset management firms in the field of socially responsible investing.
Dec 22, 2008; ... SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by the report from the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987, more companies have become aware of their responsibility in this matter (Peeters 2003). Sustainable development has been defined as development ...