At the corporate level, UNDP has tended to move rapidly from one area of focus to another.

In fact, the immediate significant impact of firms and their good corporate behaviour is in the economic area and especially on development.

What are the lessons that can be learned from the area of corporate social responsibility, both in terms of approaches and in terms of disseminating best practices?

Corporate identity.

Corporate strategy

Corporate responsibility

In the area of corporate governance and transparency, assistance has been provided to Angola, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Corporate leaders realized that economic incentives accrued from being a good corporate citizen.

The corporate governance side of the matter has received rather more in the way of regulation and standardisation as there is a longer history of regulation in this area.

Given UNCTAD's new mandate in the area of corporate responsibility, it was proposed that it engage stakeholders in action oriented policy dialogue through the UNCTAD ICC Investment Advisory Council.

Pricing Corporate Governance

Corporate specific reasons.

Corporate identity external reality or internal fit?, Corporate Communications An International Journal, 5 (1), pp.

This year's report focuses on Internet surveillance and describes not only the actions of governments with repressive online surveillance regimes, but also examines the role of corporate actors in this area.

After deliberating on various aspects of corporate responsibility reporting, the Group of Experts had agreed to continue its work in that area with a view to developing guidance on voluntary disclosures.

The Secret Corporate Takeover

Politics and Corporate Money

The Corporate Tax Conundrum

Unblocking Corporate Governance Reform

Whose Corporate Social Responsibility?

Principles of corporate communication.

Operationalizing the corporate strategy

Even in the US corporate sector, defaults will rise, owing to sharply higher corporate bond spreads.

(a) Capping of corporate costs, while corporate functions address strategic matters of governance, oversight and inspection

In the ensuing discussion, questions were raised regarding the precise definitions of general terms such as corporate responsibility , corporate social responsibility and positive corporate contribution , and regarding the notion of a corporate responsibility for development, as well as UNCTAD's mandate in this regard.

Corporate strategy Vision 2006 2007

Expert Meeting on Positive Corporate

Van den Bosch, De Jong and Elving (2005) explored possible relationships between corporate visual identity and reputation, and concluded that corporate visual identity plays a supportive role in corporate reputations.

Towards a definitive model of the corporate identity management process, Corporate Communications An International Journal, 4 (4), pp.

Even in countries with well developed systems of corporate governance, arrangements that are excessively lax on corporate insiders persist.

How corporate visual identity supports reputation.

Internal audit and corporate risk management

(l) Forest ethics and corporate responsibility

The second focus area is aimed at facilitating the entry of SMEs into international markets and value chains through the promotion of export consortia and the promotion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business partnerships.

Now the corporate sector has two faces.

Corporate Political Speech is Bad for Shareholders

At Gitmo, corporate contractors run the show.

The UNIDO corporate strategy thus states that

Thus, the UNIDO corporate strategy proclaims that

The offence also applies to corporate entities.

Existing treatment of corporate groups in insolvency

Furthermore, in a globalizing world economy, corporate activities in one country may also affect the success of corporate operations in another country.

In sum, corporate meddling in politics is bad not just for those members of society who are not corporate shareholders. It also can be expected to reduce shareholder value and retard the development of an economy s corporate sector.

It is recognized that there is an increase in the number of corporate governance accolades, awards, ratings, rankings and even corporate governance stock market indexes where constituents are selected on the basis of good practices in corporate governance.

And politicians that benefit from corporate spending and access to corporate resources will have an interest in serving the insiders preferences and objectives.