Business Issues

A look at particular issues of interest, relevance and importance for business today.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Partnerships: Academia and Business, a Powerful Team to Advance the Agenda

Haas School of Business, University of California

The social and environmental problems that our world faces are intractable, complex, and multi-faceted and there is evidence claiming that business has been a contributor to these problems...

Good Corporate Governance and Climate Change Risk

CERES

In recent years global climate change has evolved from a largely technical issue to one of the most critical, widely discussed challenges for public and private sectors alike...

SMEs and CSR: a realistic proposition?

CSR Europe

As the European Multi Stakeholder Forum on CSR gathers momentum, it is only natural that attention should turn to addressing how the majority of businesses in Europe - SMEs - are dealing with corporate social responsibility...

Corporate Responsibility and Public Policy: Forming Constructive Partnerships and Avoiding Unholy Alliances

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

The international business community has made and will continue to make essential contributions toward achieving the goal of sustainable development...

Corruption is the enemy of development

Transparency International

Wherever corruption reigns, development aspirations will remain an unattainable dream...

The business case for CSR

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development

There is a growing 'body of evidence' which suggests that there is a business case for corporate social responsibility...

Corporate social responsibility: a new business paradigm

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Ten years ago, corporate social responsibility (CSR) was not a widely discussed subject in companies...