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    Getting down to business: lessons from the African Peer Review Mechanism

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is an initiative aimed at fostering good governance and development in its participating states. As part of its multi-pronged inquiry, it devotes a great deal of attention to investigating corporate governance on the continent. However, thus far corporate governance has attracted less attention than any other area of the APRM.
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    ‘Good Citizens’: corporate social responsibility in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a growing consideration for businesses. The Country Review Reports (CRRs) compiled through the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) provide a unique lens through which CSR application in Africa can be gauged.
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    A Guide to Traceability: A practical approach to advance sustainability in global supply chains

    Global Compact, 2014
    This detailed study from the UN Global Compact Office and BSR provides an overview of the importance of traceability for sustainability objectives, as well as global opportunities and challenges.
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    Private sector development in fragile states

    Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013
    Private Sector Development (PSD) has been treated as an area of programming which is separate from post-conflict stabilisation for a long time. However, practitioners and scholars alike have recently recognised the potentials of PSD programming in conflict-affected environments.
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    Business and Human Rights: An Oxfam perspective on the UN Guiding Principles

    Oxfam, 2013
    This concise overview of the guiding principles, also known as the Ruggie Framework, clearly sets out the responsibilities of businesses to respect human rights. It contains case studies from Oxfam's work and examples of actions companies can take to improve their human rights record.
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    The causes and consequences of industry self-policing

    Harvard Business School, 2007
    Programmes encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose the violations they find are becoming increasingly important elements of regulatory strategy, and may be beginning to displace traditional regulatory enforcement tools like inspection and prosecution.
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    Coming clean and cleaning up: is voluntary disclosure a signal of effective self-policing?

    Harvard Business School, 2008
    This paper evaluates the self-regulatory practice known as self-policing among businesses, which involves encouraging regulated entities to monitor their own compliance with the law and report and correct violations they discover. The paper examines the following issues:
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    Evaluating the impact of SA 8000 certification

    Harvard Business School, 2008
    Social Accountability 8000 Standard (SA 8000) and similar corporate codes are promoted as a necessary tool to improve workplace conditions, especially in nations that lack robust enforcement of regulatory standards.These certification standards and corporate codes represent a new form of voluntary “self-governance” of working conditions in the private sector, and are initiated and impl
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    Self-regulatory institutions for solving environmental problems: perspectives and contributions from the management literature

    Harvard Business School, 2007
    This paper discusses how institutions can resolve environmental problems. The paper reviews the emerging management literature on self-regulatory institutions, suggesting that these institutions can provide practical solutions to environmental problems.
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    Towards triple impact - toolbox for analysing sustainable ventures in developing countries

    United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2009
    Sustainable ventures are business initiatives and activities that improve human wellbeing and the environment on a profitable basis in ways that are scalable and replicable. They are initiatives on the micro-level, operated by businesses, but also by non-profit or public actors.

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