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Corporate social responsibility and shareholder value
Dr Craig Mackenzie explains why investors are becoming so interested in CSR, and what it means for the CSR manager. His company, the insurance and investment group Friends Provident, recently extended its CSR investment policy to cover the full £15 billion assets under its management.
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Comment: Risks and
Rewards for good citizens
The mainstreaming of corporate responsibility gathers pace, with new Stock Exchange requirements to manage ‘social risk’ and growing evidence that getting it right pays dividends.
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Risk and rewards for good
citizens
The mainstreaming of corporate responsibility gathers pace, with new Stock Exchange requirements to manage ‘social risk’ and growing evidence that getting it right pays dividends.
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Community relations and
the competitive edge
Edmund Burke, director of the Center for Corporate Community Relations at Boston College, USA, was recently in the UK where he spoke to the newly formed Research Forum.
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Banking on a social
profit
The European Commission is taking an interest in how well the financial services industry is serving disadvantaged customers and the social sector as a whole.
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Rebuilding the employee
compact
Firms need both flexibility and commitment from their workers. A contradiction? Apparently not, so long as they are engaged as stakeholders, according to a diverse range of new reports just published.
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Comment
As with environmental issues, so with employee involvement: the narrow agenda of community affairs is being stretched.
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Comment
The closing date for submissions to Sir Ronald Hampel's Committee on Corporate Governance has prompted the usual protagonists to parade their party lines.
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Sir Ronnie to the rescue
Will the Hampel committee on corporate governance break new ground in the debate about to whom companies are accountable and for what?
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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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What's wrong with ethical
investment
Mark Goyder of the RSA Inquiry Tomorrow's Company looks at ethical investment and the implications for the City, a highly topical issue following the Body Shop controversy
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