Before asking whether inclusion is good for business, we should ask whether it is the right thing to do, two scholars argue.
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Make way for the Chief Purpose Officer - a corporate compass for keeping firms’ strategy in line with their purpose statements, but can they genuinely change organizations for the better?
The long-accepted idea that businesses must focus on shareholder profit above all else has fractured, with companies increasingly taking a stand on social issues.
Even when companies do not face legal liability, public pressure can help force a reckoning with complicity in genocide, slavery and other atrocities.
Insulating attics, replacing windows and adding heat pumps can save money and reduce emissions − if residents can afford the upgrades. Carbon-offset purchases by local companies could help.
Australia’s biggest mining company, BHP has gone to trial over the collapse of a dam which destroyed the livelihoods of more than 600,000 Brazilians.
Sustainability extends far beyond the environment. But one of its most important pillars – social – has been left out of proposed guidelines for responsible business collaborations.
Sustainability reporting isn’t about producing marketing material. It’s an opportunity for companies to honestly share the risks of doing business and present an action plan for addressing them.
Millions of dollars have gone into California’s forest carbon offset program – with little new carbon storage to show for it, a new study suggests.
By giving up on corporate responsibility, Patagonia’s founder undermines current strides toward ethical capitalism.
Whether or not Patagonia’s recent move will have a lasting impact on business responsibility will depend on how it balances its environmental impacts with the social good it carries out.
Companies need to reset their mission so that profitability is a means to an end - the organisation’s social purpose - not an end in itself is essential.
How safe is the toy you may be buying for someone this Christmas? New research suggests that toy companies often take too long to issue recalls after they become aware of safety hazards.
To date, courts have often been reluctant to interfere in what is viewed as an issue best left to policymakers. These recent judgements, and others, suggest things are changing.
How Zambian farmers won the right to pursue claims in UK courts – and why UK polluters should be worried
As capitalism’s image crumbles, many of the world’s biggest companies are trying to give it new life by showing it can mean more than just making money.
The attitudes and behaviour of employees are impacted much more strongly by the actions of their bosses than by their words. And the CEO is the most visible and powerful role model of all.
Despite a recent Tahoe Resources settlement and apology to Guatemalan protesters, Canadian companies can still get away with crimes committed abroad — even in the face of insurmountable evidence.
A new kind of capitalism is emerging in which companies value communities, the environment and workers just as much as profits. Even the Business Roundtable agrees.
On the heels of the SNC-Lavalin controversy, the Liberals have once again yielded to industry pressure and weakened their commitment to corporate accountability for Canadian companies abroad.
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Senior Research Fellow in Nonprofit Organizations, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Public Policy, Carleton University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University
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Professor of Earth Science, University of California, Irvine
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
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Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Toronto
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Human Rights Lawyer and PhD candidate, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Management, York University, Canada
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Professor, Department of International Business, Marketing, Strategy & Law, MacEwan University
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