Format:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781906093044
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9781907643026
Content:
Tells the stories of 23 social and institutional entrepreneurs who have been instrumental in developing corporate responsibility. This book offers a history and an analysis of how CSR has emerged as a key business issue, why it has evolved so quickly, and the visions of its thought leaders
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: creating a social movement -- The difference makers -- 1 Making a difference -- The difference makers -- In their own words -- A short history of accountability, responsibility, transparency, and the corporation -- Growing global inequity -- How the book is organized -- 2 Building a different future: an emerging corporate responsibility infrastructure -- Corporate responsibility from the inside: pressure from the outside -- Creating new pressures on corporations -- What have difference makers attempted to do? -- Principles, standards, and codes -- An emerging infrastructure of principles, standards, and codes -- Responsibility -- Accountability and responsibility assurance -- Responsibility assurance: verification, certification, monitoring, and enforcement -- Emerging infrastructure: verification, certification, monitoring, and enforcement -- Consultancies -- Transparency -- Transparency and reporting -- Other mechanisms of transparency -- Stakeholder engagement and dialogue -- Business and other associations -- Multi-sector coalitions -- Questioning the system -- Alternative ways of measuring progress -- Journals and popular magazines -- Academic associations and interest groups -- 3 Early inklings: social pioneering for responsible investing -- A framework for responsibility assurance infrastructure development -- Elements of a social movement -- A dialectical process of change -- Framing the problem: social pioneers -- Alice Tepper Marlin -- The seeds of social investing -- The Council on Economic Priorities (CEP) -- Joan Bavaria -- Trillium Asset Management (Franklin Research and Development) -- Timothy H. Smith -- Campaign GM -- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
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Expanding social agendas and multiple strategies -- Crafting a vision -- Amy Domini -- SRI gains shape -- The Domini Social Equity Fund and Domini 400 Social Index -- Roots of a changing vision about SRI -- 4 Emerging accountability structures -- Steven D. Lydenberg -- Rating America's Corporate Conscience -- KLD Research andamp -- Analytics -- Peter Kinder -- The continuing story of KLD and the Domini Social Index -- Steven D. Lydenberg and the Institute for Responsible Investment -- From the CEP to SAI: from shopping to labor standards -- Seeds of SAI -- Simon Zadek -- AccountAbility -- James E. Post -- The infant formula controversy -- Public affairs and the environment -- Voice of the Faithful -- Accountability as an emerging issue -- 5 Emerging responsibility standards -- The next important breakthrough -- Joan Bavaria and Ceres -- Robert K. (Bob) Massie -- The evolution of Ceres and the founding of new institutions -- Robert H. (Bob) Dunn -- Levi Strauss -- The Fair Labor Association and other developments -- Steven B. (Steve) Young -- The Caux Round Table -- John Ruggie -- The UN Global Compact -- Georg Kell -- The Global Compact -- John Ruggie: broadening scope -- Millennium Development Goals -- Human rights -- 6 Transparency and common reporting -- John Elkington -- Going public once -- SustainAbility -- The demand for transparency and reporting consistency -- Allen White -- From Ceres to the Global Reporting Initiative -- The Global Reporting Initiative -- From code to transparency -- 7 Networking -- Laury Hammel -- Business for Social Responsibility -- Bob Dunn and the evolution of BSR -- Laury Hammel moves on -- Business and spirituality -- Engaging local networks -- Business Alliance for Local Living Economies -- Social Venture Network -- David Grayson -- Business in the Community -- International Business Leaders Forum
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Small Business Journey -- Focus on multinationals -- Bradley K. (Brad) Googins -- Center for Work and Family -- Moving to corporate citizenship -- Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship -- Emerging professional networks - someone to consult to -- Global action networks: a new approach to global governance -- Steve Waddell -- GAN-Net -- A broad base of networks -- 8 Engagement and dialogue: changing the fundamentals -- David Logan -- Corporate Citizenship -- Malcolm McIntosh -- Corporate Citizenship Unit, University of Warwick -- Journal of Corporate Citizenship -- Applied Research Centre in Human Security, Coventry University -- Jane Nelson -- World Business Council for Sustainable Development -- International Business Leaders Forum -- Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government -- Judith Samuelson -- The Ford Foundation's business-in-society approach -- Aspen Institute Business and Society Program -- EABIS: the European Academy of Business in Society -- Tomorrow's dream: changing the nature of the corporation -- Corporation 20/20 -- 9 The vision thing -- Obstacles to achieving the vision -- The fundamental issues -- Other obstacles -- What needs to change: a better world -- Decision-makers' hopes for system change -- A better world? -- What is this thing called making a difference? -- References -- Endnotes -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Index of organizations
Additional Edition:
Print version Waddock, Sandra The Difference Makers Sheffield : Taylor & Francis Group,c2008 ISBN 9781906093044
Language:
English
Keywords:
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