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How to get ahead on environmental reporting
Few large firms now dare to ignore their environmental impact. More and more are assessing and reporting. Here Communty affairs Briefing praises the leaders and offers to help the laggards with a five point action plan.
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Comment: Managing risk,
embracing stakeholders
The combination of a dynamic business leader like Sir John Egan, a knowledgeable environmentalist like Des Wilson in corporate affairs and some sound community relations has transformed BAA, albeit in an industry where the challenges are clear
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Managing risk, embracing
stakeholders
The latest batch of social reports shows the progress made by leading companies that have embraced stakeholder accountability. For others, changes to corporate governance rules especially on risk control will gradually lead them in the same direction.
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Acting together for the
common good
Companies are increasingly seeking not just business benefit but also competitive advantage from community and wide social engagement. Yet in tackling issues of common social concern, working together more makes good sense.
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Socially challenged:
trends in social reporting
Corporate social accountability and reporting are roaring up the business agenda. John Elkington and Franceska van Dijk from SustainAbility explore the trends and priorities in their latest report for the United Nations, offering six points of advice.
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Why not report? Lessons
from the environmental front
John Elkington from SustainAbility has led the way in helping companies to improve their environmental reporting. His latest study, looking at why the majority of multinational companies still do not report, offers pointers to the development of wider social accounting and reporting.
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Comment: Quantum leap
from community to society
The latest batch of reports represents a quantum leap in the range of issues covered, the level of detail provided and clarity of linkage to the business strategy
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Quantum leap from
community to society
New reports from Shell, BP and others massively extend the scope of traditional community reporting and pose a personal challenge to social responsibility managers and their companies.
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Comment: Holding the
Steards to Account
The review of UK company law provides a welcome opportunity, albeit not immediately, to replace the wholly inadequate requirement to report the total of UK charitable donations with a more meaningful account of community involvement
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Holding the stewards to
account
Back in the news are plans to improve the way modern companies are governed, with management giving a more inclusive account of their stewardship of the business.
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Getting the measure of
community involvement
David Logan describes the work of the London Benchmarking Group in devising a new approach to reporting the totality of a company's community involvement.
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