Corporate responsibility

Whose Corporate Social Responsibility?

(l) Forest ethics and corporate responsibility

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.

Other important issues included Corporate Social Responsibility and a development oriented coherence between national development strategies and decisions emanating from international financial institutions.

Corporate responsibility has been established at the highest level.

Initiatives to promote corporate social responsibility should be voluntary.

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

The concept of corporate responsibility (CR) involves a broad range of fundamental social and economic development issues, including human rights, labour rights, environmental protection and good governance.

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

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

Tools and processes used to address corporate audit issues

Ordinarily, corporate governance issues are not followed by most citizens.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The classical concept of corporate responsibility (CR) involves a broad range of social and economic issues that are fundamental for the promotion of economic development, including human rights, labour rights, environmental conservation, and the fight against political and administrative corruption.

This will help complete the follow through in terms of corporate issues raised through country office audits.

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.

Because institutional investors invest substantial amounts in such companies, they should be well informed about corporate governance issues.

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.

(a) Differences in philosophy and approach between civil and common law traditions concerning management or control of corporate groups and related companies and in approaches to director responsibility and liability in the context of corporate groups

WASHINGTON, DC In an era in which conventional models of finance, corporate governance, and corporate responsibility are increasingly debated, if not called into question, it may be time to revisit the alternative approach taken by economic cooperatives.

These were a review of the comparability and relevance of existing indicators on corporate social responsibility, and a review of the implementation status of corporate governance disclosures and the role of such disclosures in adding sustainable value.

She was a research fellow and deputy director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute where she also worked for the two Nordic United Nations reform projects, and she has been a director and senior adviser on corporate social responsibility issues for the Norwegian petroleum company Statoil.

(a) To identify and clarify standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights

(a) To identify and clarify standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights

The publication Corporate Social Responsibility and the Development Agenda Should SMEs Care? was issued as one of the SME Technical Working Papers series.

Issues that could be addressed in this connection concern further corporate involvement in overcoming information market failures with regard to investment and business opportunities in developing countries and corporate participation in risk mitigation schemes.