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

Focusing on the legal dimension of corporate responsibilities in the field of economic development, he said that trends in investment arbitration case law suggested that certain corporate conduct obligations were inherent in the protective principles found in international investment agreements.

But are CSR obligations really good practice? Milton Friedman and other critics often asked if it was the business of businesses to practice corporate altruism.

TNCs are thus expected to abide by a country's tax law and to meet their tax obligations in good faith. Corporate responsibility in this regard could, for

Corporate identity.

Corporate strategy

Corporate responsibility

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

Pricing Corporate Governance

Corporate specific reasons.

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

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.

In response, a number of discussants pointed out that the only sanction available under the Global Compact was to withdraw membership from any corporate participant that failed to comply, within two years, with the reporting obligations under the Compact.

How corporate visual identity supports reputation.

Internal audit and corporate risk management

(l) Forest ethics and corporate responsibility

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.

Unliquidated obligations

Unliquidated obligations

Shipper's obligations

General obligations

Scientific Obligations

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.