Initiatives to promote corporate social responsibility should be voluntary.

Nevertheless, many corporate responsibility initiatives currently came directly from industry.

Corporate responsibility

Whose Corporate Social Responsibility?

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Improving resource management at the corporate level corporate social responsibility strategies for commodity companies

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.

The panellist from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) stressed the need to view corporate responsibility initiatives in their specific market contexts.

Corporate responsibility has been established at the highest level.

Participants reviewed a range of existing initiatives and standards that States, business and civil society had developed to strengthen corporate and State responsibility in the sector.

Programme Component D.6 SME Export Consortia and Corporate Social Responsibility

Other new pressures stemmed from the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) process.

It was also important to place corporate responsibility in its proper context.

Ms. Donna Katzin, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (A C.4 48 5)

It saw merit in the Global Compact as one of several voluntary corporate responsibility initiatives and was keenly interested in the plans to establish an advisory board and tighten the reporting system.

Review of the Comparability and the Relevance of Existing Indicators on Corporate Social Responsibility

Civil society and corporate sector, which would contribute to the initiative, ruled by principles of corporate responsibility and social, cultural, environmental and technical sustainability.

Private sector initiatives to meet corporate environmental goals and develop more environment friendly products as part of strategic marketing initiatives are also drivers of change.

Yet at the same time, the corporate sector lobbies aggressively to gut environmental regulations, slash corporate tax rates, and avoid their own responsibility for ecological destruction.

Total shareholder return (TSR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) often seem completely divorced from each other.

Further reaffirms to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

Further reaffirms to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

She described her country's experiences with corporate responsibility issues and stressed the need to foster public involvement in initiatives emanating from the private sector through partnership approaches and engagement programmes at the national and regional levels.

Corporate responsibility was reflected under subprogramme 2, in response to paragraph 58 of the São Paulo Consensus.

The European Union welcomed the ongoing international debate on corporate social responsibility, business ethics, accountability and transparency.

Investment Opportunities and Corporate Responsibility How Can Developing Countries and in Particular LDCs Better Benefit from FDI?

14. Reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

IFPMA and its member organisations (as well as individual corporations) do carry out Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.

initiatives between international financial institutions and private equity firms. Positive corporate contributions to development could support these initiatives, including through charging of lower interest rates and reduction of profit margins.

The report provided in particular an overview of the main international initiatives in corporate governance disclosures and discussed the status of implementation of good practices of corporate governance disclosures at the company level.

12. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

11. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

The flavor of the week in Rio is sustainability indexing for corporations, by way of corporate social responsibility (CSR).

In addition, the importance of ensuring corporate social responsibility, including with regard to the rights of workers, was stressed.

The panellist from the UN Research Institute for Social Development reflected on the institutional and policy dimensions of corporate responsibility.

Bayer's Program for Legal Compliance and Corporate Responsibility does, however, mention the Chemical Weapons Convention, export controls, and genetic engineering.

Developing countries demand not only that foreign investors should exercise corporate responsibility they need to be transparent in their operations.

The importance of ensuring corporate social responsibility and accountability, including with regard to the rights of workers, was also stressed.

And I found it fascinating that the social responsibility team was not formed as part of some grand corporate strategy.

You know, it's now time for corporate responsibility to really look at what they feed or make available to their staff.

Where there was a need for corporate standards and regulatory enforcement, it was the responsibility of the particular Governments to act.

NEW YORK Increasingly, corporations are under pressure, often from activist non governmental organizations, to take on specific corporate social responsibility (CSR) obligations.

To properly address this issue would not only require appropriate measures to promote FDI but also be a question of corporate responsibility.

To engage in a pro active dialogue on matters related to corporate developmental responsibility and good corporate governance of Transnational Corporations, which entails maximizing their contribution to the economic and social development of host developing countries.