corporate responsibility Articles
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Environment, technology and corporate responsibility
Technological development and environmental responsibility are placed in their management context. A framework is constructed for the analysis of environmental issues in relation to the dynamics of business, from input via processes through to output and outcome. The concept of quality of products and services is matched with the concern for pollution and quality of life. Guidelines are presented ...
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Assessing clustered SME practice towards environmental and social impact: a Bourdieusian approach
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are recognised as critical to local social and economic development. We explore the attitudes and practice of SMEs towards corporate responsibility/sustainability in a major ceramic tile manufacturing cluster, in Southwest China. The industry cluster offers a unique site for observing SME behaviour since clusters are credited with promoting regional economic ...
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From sustainable development to corporate social responsibility: an application to the European aluminium sector
This paper discusses the stakes, opportunities and methods appropriate for developing a strategy of corporate social responsibility within the aluminium industry companies in Europe. It draws on institutional and documentary analysis, as well as on results from empirical work testing participatory procedures for development of corporate social responsibility strategies and performance indicators ...
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'Going green'! Exploring customer preference in the hotel industry
Green management has become a new mandate for firms in all industries to use in their operational strategies. The hotel industry has long utilised environmentally friendly practises yet it has incorporated more actions in recent years due to consumer demand. This work offers an exploratory qualitative study of consumer perceptions about the importance of green management practises in purchase ...
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Measuring sustainability of water supply: performance indicators and their application in a corporate responsibility report
For many water supply companies, the sustainable exploitation of water resources has always been an integral part of their business, voluntarily accepting tasks and responsibility which benefit society and the environment in general, e.g. in resource protection, environmental monitoring, and encouragement of sustainable farming practices. However, these voluntary activities are often not ...
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SMEs and corporate social responsibility. The perspective from Spanish companies
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be understood as an instrument for the application of sustainability in business activity. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have participated less in the development of CSR management than large corporations. However, many of these companies recognise that they are accountable for much of their impact, and they also perform actions that could be ...
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Better governance: To avoid risks or to create value?
In this article, George Dallas argues that corporate governance should not be looked at as an external discipline that imposes costs, but rather as an internal discipline that adds value — it is about creating a corporate culture that embodies and implements core values and principles intended to enhance the quality and sustainability of a firm's future performance. CAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE BE A ...
By AHC Group
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The future of corporate reporting is sustainable business performance management
The future of corporate reporting is Sustainable Business Performance Management. Today, this seems to be true more than ever. Non-financial disclosure is a marketplace expectation for any company reporting information to stakeholders. It is more crucial than ever to give stakeholder a throughout picture of your organisations performance. Integrating non-financials to Corporate Performance ...
By Tofuture Oy
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Community relations management systems in the minerals industry: combining conventional and stakeholder-driven approaches
As part of a broader commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, major minerals companies are developing and implementing a management systems approach to community relations. While the application of management systems to community relations represents an advance over more traditional approaches to dealing with community issues, limitations of the systems paradigm ...
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Investment and environmental management: the interaction between environmentally responsible investment and environmental management practice
Do investors, such as environmentally responsible funds, influence firms' decisions to implement environmental management practices? We present the results of a survey analysing the implementation standards of environmental management practices subject to the influence of environmentally responsible investment funds. Results indicate that firms listed in environmentally responsible funds perform ...
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Seeking congruence in implementing corporate environmental strategy
A major challenge facing all organisations is to implement corporate strategy successfully. This is true especially of strategies which reflect the increasingly diverse demands placed upon modern organisations, such as those towards the environment, or more generally concerned with corporate responsibility. A general problem faced by more ethically based strategies is that while they increasingly ...
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Exploring potential power of corporate social responsibility toward sustainability development: analysis of state–owned company social responsibility in Indonesia
The implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Indonesia is mostly forced to follow government rules. Government also enacted some regulations that all state–owned companies (SOCs) allocate some of their profits in CSR programs. This paper attempts to analyse the effectiveness of CSR programs run by SOCs, and to assess the contributions of those programs in addressing social ...
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Jacobi Groups Sustainability Drive
At Jacobi, we are driven by sustainability. We frequently speak about our long-term aim, which is to become the world’s most sustainable supplier in our industry. For us, sustainability involves several aspects. For many sustainability is solely about the planet, about what we should be doing to protect the Earth. We feel there are other factors to consider. Our corporate responsibility, ...
By Jacobi Group
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Linking stakeholders and corporate reputation towards corporate sustainability
The purpose of this paper is to understand the interdependence of corporate reputation within the sphere of stakeholder management with the goal of achieving corporate sustainability. The paper investigates literatures in corporate sustainability, stakeholder management, social marketing, corporate communication, and reputation management in order to build a new framework. This study suggests ...
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Corporate social responsibility and the challenge of triple bottom line integration: insights from the Lebanese context
The notion of sustainability has been evolving and is increasingly understood to encompass considerations of economic viability, as well as environmental sustainability and social responsibility. This paper examines how linking these three legs of sustainability remains a challenge and explores empirically the performance of a sample of Lebanese organisations in the three strands of ...
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Harnessing Technology for Environmental Performance Management,` presented at the 2008 ESS EXPO
Harnessing Technology forEnvironmental Performance Management Why should you manageenvironmental performance? Why should you harnesstechnology for it? How could we extract bestvalue from the data? Harnessing Technology forEnvironmental Performance Management Why should you manage environmental performance? Stakeholders are driving Corporate social responsibility Environmental ...
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Towards a generally accepted CSR accounting framework: a literature mapping
The measuring of CSR performance is high priority in the research agenda of academics. To this end, several methodological frameworks and approaches have been recommended. These frameworks can be divided in two categories: single indicators and composite indexes. This pluralism in the definitions, while enhancing the academic debate, cancels the core requirements of a generally accepted ...
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Are stock markets influenced by sustainability matter? Evidence from European companies
The emergence of ethical investment is a sign of the increasing interest of shareholders in the impact of corporate activities on sustainable development. The objective of this article is to analyse the relationship between the sustainable performance of a company and its financial performance measured by stock market value. Belonging to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, disclosing a Global ...
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Sustainable development using the sustainability balanced score card: the case of Tata Motors, India
There is growing interest within businesses to improve the sustainability of operations, which is, balancing short term goals of turnover and profit with long term goals in social and environmental performance. The 'balanced score card' (BSC) (Kaplan and Norton, 1996) is a strategy-centred performance-measurement tool that enables firms to align their operations to their business strategies. The ...
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Profiting without paper
The May 2009 issue of Information Week Canada features an article by Richard Bray called 'Pushing paper, right out the door: How an Ottawa company wound up in a paperless place.' The article focuses on the pains and successes that OCM Manufacturing experienced during the transition to a paperless office. After their first paper-based attempt at ISO 9000 certification failed and hundreds of ...
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