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Comment: Companies get tough
Over the summer, several multinationals had the confidence, to defend their shareholders' interests by engaging vigorously with the wider community. In the UK, the Hampel Committee missed the point.
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Act now, or suffer the
little children
If anyone thought the allegations about child labour and Marks & Spencer were an isolated incident, it is time to think again
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Lots of interest in late
payers
Once seen as a 1980s issue, the needs of small business are firmly back on the agenda.
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Accountability: publish
or be dammed
In the same month that Marks & Spencer finds itself under unaccustomed attack over allegations of unethical business practices by a supplier, new techniques are pioneered to permit fair scrutiny of good business behaviour.
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Community stakeholder
analysis
According to stakeholder theory of management, a company must take into account the broad range of groups who can affect, or are affected by, the achievement of its purpose. Here Gillian Garrett, until recently community relations manager at East Midlands Electricity, sets out a four stage process to review CCI strategy.
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>Tomorrow's Company -
The RSA Enquiry
Set up more than a year ago, the business-led RSA inquiry has just issued an interim report.
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Buying into the
Environment
Environmental considerations now play an important part in purchasing and supply decisions, as business success increasingly depends on environmental performance
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Glaxo: A decade of growth
A decade ago, few people would have named Glaxo as one of the UK's biggest corporate donors; today it is in the top ten and growing.
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Marks & Spencer -
Bucking the trend successfully
Marks and Spencer is one of Britain's most consistently successful businesses, and is one of the biggest corporate donors, but the company follows its own distintive and traditional approach.
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Kingfisher: from charity
towards social responsibility
An assessment of Kingfisher, one of Britain's leading retailers and the company behind such famous names as Woolworths, B&Q, Comet and Superdrug.
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