Frameworks and tools
- How well do social ratings actually measure corporate responsibility?
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Despite their increasing popularity, social ratings are rarely evaluated and have been criticised for their lack of transparency. In one of the first studies to assess CSR metrics, this paper examines how well the most widely used ratings help stakeholders to judge which companies are environmentally responsible.
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Coffee in Tanzania: key trends in sustainability standards
- ( E.,A. Lazaro;J. Makindara;F.,T.,M. Kilima / Danish Institute for International Studies , 2008)
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One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countr...
- What are the current international standards and practices regarding business and human rights?
- ( J.G. Ruggie / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2007)
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The state-based system of global governance has struggled for more than a generation to regulate the expanding reach and growing influence of transnational corporations. This paper reviews two rece...
- Does mandatory information disclosure generate positive responses for firms?
- ( A.K. Chatterji;M.W. Toffel / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2007)
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This paper suggests that as national governments lose the ability to regulate activities of business, interest groups and concerned citizens are turning to private governance for its regulation. Th...
- Principles and guidance for rights-based grievance mechanism
- ( C. Rees / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2008)
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This document provides guidance for effective grievance mechanisms in the context of corporate social responsibility. It provides a tool for companies and their local stakeholders to work out right...
Do social ratings provide transparency about past and likely future environmental performance of corporates?
- ( A.K Chatterji;D.I. Levine;M.W. Toffel / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2007)
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Just like credit ratings improve transparency and efficiency in debt capital markets by reducing the information imbalance between borrowers and lenders, social ratings aim to provide social invest...
- Ethical supply chain management: a review of 10 years
- ( R. Hurst;M. Buttle;H. Murdoch / Impactt , 2007)
- This report reviews how debates and issues concerning labour standards and ethical supply chain management have evolved over the past ten years and also looks at Impactt's own involvement and work on ...
- Waitrose and its responsible sourcing principles: a success story
- ( Business in the Community, UK , 2006)
- Waitrose has established a set of ‘responsible sourcing principles’, outlining its expectations of its suppliers on issues such as labour standards, environmental management and animal wel...
- A business case for HIV and AIDS programmes at the workplace
- ( l. Ilon;K. Barwise;K. Hüsken / International Organization for Migration , 2007)
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While companies participating in Zambia’s Global Development Alliance (GDA) programme acknowledge the benefits of HIV and AIDS programming in the workplace, the efficiency of such programming...
- A review of sustainability reporting in China
- ( G. Peiyuan;Z. Xubiao;W. Ningdi / SynTao , 2007)
- Sustainability reporting initiatives have grown in popularity over the past decade, however the history of sustainability reporting in China is much shorter. The report documents the current stat...
- Violating code of conduct: Wal-Mart suppliers in China
- ( Clean Clothes Campaign , 2007)
- This paper investigates corporate misbehaviour by China’s eighth largest trading partner, Wal-Mart. The focus is on China’s export oriented toy industry and Wal-Mart’s unethical sour...
