The Future Faces of CSR Activism
By Dr. Wayne VisserQuest for CSR 2.0 Series No.9The third principle of Transformative CSR, or CSR 2.0, is responsiveness. (We explored creativityand scalability in the last two posts). Some of the most...
View ArticleMyths About CSR in Developing Countries
By Wayne VisserPart of the Quest for CSR 2.0 series.Are concepts and models of corporate social responsibility (CSR) developed in the West appropriate for developing countries?I decided to first tackle...
View ArticleSustainable by Design? Lessons in Circularity from Seventh Generation
By Dr. Wayne VisserQuest for CSR 2.0 Series No.11The CSR 2.0 principle of circularity has roots in life cycle assessment, cleaner production, sustainable consumption and cradle to cradle concepts. In...
View ArticleBest CSR Research of 2011 - Free download
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View ArticleChanging the World - One Leader at a Time
By Dr Wayne VisserQuest for CSR 2.0 Series No.12We face a crisis of leadership. Our global challenges loom large and clear, but we seem to lack leaders who can make change happen at a scale and speed...
View ArticleBest Environmental Research of 2011 - Free dowload
This compilation includes 48 study/survey summaries. Register/login for the free download: http://www.csrinternational.org/2012/01/19/best-environmental-research-of-2011/Dr Wayne VisserCEO, CSR...
View ArticleBest Governance Research of 2011 - Free Download
This compilation includes 48 study/survey summaries. Register/login for the free download:http://www.csrinternational.org/2012/01/25/best-governance-research-of-2011/Dr Wayne VisserCEO, CSR International
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Be the Change – But first Be Yourself
By Dr Wayne VisserPart of the Quest for CSR 2.0 Blog Series for CSR WireWhat do we know about the role of individuals as CSR change agents? Intuitively, we resonate with adages such as Gandhi's 'be the...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Responsibility
By Wayne VisserThe Age of Responsibility blog series for TBLmedia - No. 1Do you sigh when you hear the word responsibility? Perhaps responsibility is even a dirty word in your vocabulary. Perhaps you...
View ArticlePublic Purpose & the Corporate Form: CICs vs BCorps
By Cyrus BhedwarOver the past decade, two legal innovations have emerged that attempt to integrate social and environmental purpose with the well-known profit-making prowess of the corporation. Can...
View ArticleFat-Cats versus Alley-Cats: Why the Occupy Movement is Right
By Dr Wayne VisserPart 2 of 13 in Wayne Visser's Age of Responsibility Blog Series for 3BL Media.The most common explanation for the global financial crisis is to point a finger at the banks. And...
View ArticleWhen passion takes over logic: Mugs vs. disposable cups
By Yelena NovikovaCSR and sustainability professionals are frequently prepared to go the extra mile when designing a solution. It is taken as a given that they have to, if the company aspires to be...
View ArticleGive a Man the Means to Fish
From Paternalistic Charity to Venture PhilanthropyPart 3 of 13 in Wayne Visser's Age of Responsibility Blog Series for 3BL Media.By Dr Wayne VisserGive a man a fish and he will eat today. Teach a man...
View ArticleTracing Corporate Social Investment (CSI) Milestones in South Africa
By Greer Blizzard2012 marks the eighteenth year of democracy for the ‘new’ South Africa – a country still navigating its way through the unique political, economic and social turmoil of its birth,...
View ArticleBroken Promises: BP’s slide backwards into Promotional CSR
By Wayne VisserPart 4 of 13 in Wayne Visser's Age of Responsibility Blog Series for 3BL Media.By 2000, John Browne, then-CEO of BP, felt the company had earned enough sustainability kudos to risk a...
View ArticleI Am Fat and It Is Your Fault!
By Alicia de la PeñaIn 2006, the Mexican Institute for Public Health warned that, despite persistent poverty levels, the country was facing an obesity pandemic. (National Institute of Public Health,...
View ArticleCracking the CSR Codes Puzzle
By Dr Wayne VisserPart 5 of 13 in Wayne Visser's Age of Responsibility Blog Series for 3BL Media.Looking back, we can see that the 1990s were the decade of CSR codes – not only EMAS, ISO 14001 and SA...
View ArticleEmployee Volunteering – If it’s so important, why aren’t we all doing it?
By Andrea Grace RannardEmployee volunteering is widely acknowledged as an integral component of a company’s CSR activity. Yet, many companies don’t integrate it into their operations by giving staff...
View ArticleCSR: Altruism vs. Enlightened Self-interest
By Jessica FriendCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be justified either in terms of altruism or enlightened self-interest. On the one hand, definitions of CSR typically contain altruistic...
View ArticleHow Reliable is Corporate Social Responsibility?
By Lorna TaylorPressure is increasing on large organisations to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability across the three pillars of economic performance, social equity and environmental...
View ArticleCSR 2.0 as a New DNA for Business
By Wayne VisserPart 6 of 13 in Wayne Visser's Age of Responsibility Blog Series for 3BL Media.By May 2008, it was clear to me that the evolutionary concept of Web 2.0 held many lessons for CSR, and I...
View ArticleThe Impact of Ruggie’s Guiding Principles for Human Rights?
By Sabrina BasranThe world is no stranger to human rights abuses committed by companies – Union Carbide (taken over by Dow Chemical) in India in the 1980s; Shell in the Niger Delta; Nike and sweatshop...
View ArticleNature vs. Nurture: Are Social Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
By Dr Wayne VisserPart 7 of 13 in Wayne Visser's Age of Responsibility Blog Series for 3BL Media.What do Taddy Blecher, Anurag Gupta, Wang Chuan-Fu and all of the other social entrepreneurs have in...
View ArticleThe Millennium Development Goals – Are we getting there?
By Ana SvabWhen launching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon said that the “Goals are ambitious but feasible and, together with the comprehensive...
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