A court ruling expands the options for corporate accountability efforts against oil companies in France, and it may have repercussions in the US and elsewhere.
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Corporations that benefit from poverty should have a legal duty to mitigate the harm of poverty from which they benefit.
This reporting season, take the earnings figure with a grain of salt when the CEO has outsized influence.
Regulators, investors and climate advocates will be able to monitor what impact businesses are having on the environment under new accountability laws.
Multi-stakeholder initiatives have the potential to help businesses tackle social and environmental issues, but they need to ensure that all members have their voices heard.
Environmental, social and governance investment funds claim to help save the planet and better society, but the reality is more complex.
The consequences for board members of corporations found to violate the law and ethical norms are rare and usually minor.
Secret payments in exchange for silence regarding work-related sexual abuse are usually tax-deductible. How about changing that?
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
Volkswagen’s strategy shows that problems like the emissions scandal are likely to continue.
For firms to survive and thrive, innovation is crucial. Innovative companies can respond to changes in today’s dynamic business environment. Countries and regions that are home to innovative companies…
The news that Tesco took delivery of a £31m executive jet, bringing its fleet of such aircraft to five, brought fresh embarrassment to the troubled supermarket. Ordered in early 2013 under the aegis of…
The high cost of organisational fraud in both private and public sectors in Australia continues to haunt organisations, particularly fraud committed by “trusted” employees. Cases prosecuted this month…
Business secretary Vince Cable has announced his intention to create a public register of UK company ownership in a bid to tackle tax evasion and money laundering by shady corporate bodies. But don’t believe…
Over the past ten years, 519 people have died after contact with the police, either in custody (the great majority) or during a pursuit or another road traffic incident. Some 23 people have been shot by…
What should we do with producers who routinely deliver faulty goods and services? Producers of cars, food, medicines, aeroplanes and even financial products are forced to compensate injured parties, recall…
We find ourselves in an era of what we might call creative self-destruction. We’re destroying ourselves – it’s as simple as that. Economic growth and exploiting nature’s resources have long gone hand-in-hand…
The triple bottom line is a term coined in the late 1990s by the influential business thinker and consultant, John Elkington. It captures a very neat idea, namely that a modern organisation has three broad…
When she wrote recently that “big green groups” are doing more harm than good when it comes to saving the planet, Naomi Klein was was right to be concerned. In recent years the environmental agenda has…
The explosions and fire that completely destroyed the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha and cost 167 workers their lives remains the world’s worst offshore oil disaster. Saturday, July 6, marks 25 years since…
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