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The 'good management' index shows results
A year ago in Issue 33, Alastair Bruce described a new best practice model, to compare performance and improve management of corporate community involvement. Here he sets out the results from a group of leading 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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Corporate Citizenship in
Europe
An international conference "Promoting Corporate Citizenship in the New Europe", was held last October in Barcelona. Here John Griffiths, a consultant to the organisers, Corporate Citizenship Europe, discusses the prospects for corporate community activity across the continent.
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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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Comment:Enhancing Support
for small business
The role large companies can play in assisting small and growing businesses is in the spotlight again, as the new government announces its plans for the Business Link Network.
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Enhancing support for
small business
The role large companies can play in assisting small and growing businesses is in the spotlight again, as the new government announces its plans for the Business Link Network.
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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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Little and large:
partnerships for jobs
As concern about unemployment rises up the public policy agenda across Europe, the European Round Table has taken a timely look at what large companies can do to help small firms create jobs.
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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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