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  Corporate Social Responsibility in India: policy and practices of Dutch companies

  Consultancy and Research for Environmental Management, Netherlands, 2004

  This study sets out to analyse to what extent Dutch companies in India have developed a policy on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as well as to identify good practices and potential difficulties in the implementation of such policy.
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  Regulating corporations: a resource guide

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004

  The area of regulation related to the social, environmental and human rights responsibilities and obligations of TNCs is immense and continually growing. This report seeks to disentangle the multifarious regulatory world that relates to transnational corporations (TNCs), focusing on regulations related to social, environmental and human rights.
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  Corporate social responsibility and business regulation

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004

  This policy briefing paper compares the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to regulating corporate responsibility.
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  Methodological challenges to impact assessment of codes of practice

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2002

  To date there has been little independent assessment of whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives such as codes of practice actually deliver in terms of social and environmental effects.Through a discussion of the authors’ evolving research into the impact of codes in the South African wine industry, this conference paper outlines some of the methodological issues involved in ev
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  Development at risk: rethinking UN-business partnerships

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2003

  This study examines issues that affect the extent to which partnerships between the UN and business, which have proliferated in recent years, are likely to contribute to development.It suggests that there are various grounds for concluding that close relations between the UN and business will do little to promote development:there are systemic factors that limit the extent of improvemen
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  Does reporting work?: the effect of regulation

  AccountAbility, 2003

  This paper explores the value of reporting to businesses and their stakeholders, as well as the role of regulation in making otherwise voluntary reporting initiatives more effective. It tries to avoid ideological debates over ‘voluntary vs.
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  Codes of conduct, government regulation and worker organizing

  Maquila Solidarity Network, 2000

  This paper examines the advantages and limitations of voluntary codes of conduct, which have become prominent as labour standards and working conditions in consumer products industries have deteriorated in the wake of trade liberalisation and globalisation, and restructuring of production and distribution.The paper argues that there are legitimate grounds to be sceptical about the usefulness o
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  Options for promoting corporate responsibility in conflict zones: perspectives from the private sector

  International Peace Academy, 2002

  This paper examines private sector actors’ perceptions of and experiences with select existing and prospective measures (both voluntary and regulatory) to promote responsible business behavior in conflict zones.
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  Workers’ tool or PR ploy? A guide to codes of international labour practice

  Dialogue on globalisation, 2003

  Ethical production and consumption is the aim of several trade-related initiatives launched in recent years, including social labelling, WTO campaigns, framework agreements and codes of conduct.
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  Strengthening implementation of corporate social responsibility in global supply chains

  World Bank, 2003

  The specific objectives of this study are to a) identify the key barriers to improved implementation of codes of conduct at the level of suppliers, and b) identify and prioritize viable options for addressing these barriers.

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