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Great East Japan Earthquake Restoration Efforts

Mitsui & Co.

This will be a date long remembered by Japan and the world at large. Since the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake that hit the Tohoku area north of Japan, Mitsui & Co. (“Mitsui”) has been conducting various activities in terms of recovery support through social contribution activities and through Mitsui’s core business. more[...] login_required

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Mozambique Irrigation Project to help achieve UN MDGs

Mitsui & Co.

In cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mitsui is donating a solar power-operated pumping facility for irrigation water to a local farming community in Mozambique, Africa. In 2010, a partnership agreement to build an irrigation system was signed between Mitsui and UNDP, with the project currently at the construction phase. more[...] login_required

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Financial Services Professionals Feel Unethical Behavior May Be A Necessary Evil

Labaton Sucharow LLP announced the results of its survey of 500 financial services professionals across the United States and United Kingdom. Conducted by Populus in June, Wall Street, Fleet Street and Main Street: Corporate Integrity at a Crossroads reveals startling data on corporate ethics, the regulatory landscape, and individuals' willingness to blow the whistle on wrongdoing. more[...] login_required

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Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses in Latin America

Dr. Marcelo Saguier, School of Latin American Social Sciences

Efforts to establish an agenda of corporate responsibilities with human rights in Latin America have led to modest, if not aspirational, results. However, recent developments suggest that this agenda is gradually gaining ground, as seen through its appropriation by states, companies, and civil society advocacy groups as an interpretative framework for their actions. The emerging dynamics of collaboration and conflict between such actors – within and across national borders – contribute toward defining the broad substance and scope of this emerging agenda. more[...] login_required

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Social Responsibility Networks in the Banana Industry

Prof. Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT

There is evidence that in the last two decades, international civil society has played a dynamic role in improving environmental and working conditions in regions such as Latin America. Such improvements have occurred side by side with indications that trade liberalization and the decline of the state’s regulatory role since the 1980s and the advent of globalization in the 1990s has exacerbated inequalities, social exclusion, and triggered environmental degradation. more[...] login_required

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Gonzalez-Perez, Maria Alejandra

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Should Poverty Alleviation Be Part of Corporate Responsibility?

Dr. Lourdes Casanova, Strategy Department INSEAD

After a gap of 20 years, Rio de Janeiro will again be hosting the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20. In 1992, at the Earth Summit (Eco-92), Latin America was getting out of the so-called lost decade, following the debt crisis of the 1980s. The economy was growing slowly, inflation was high, and high levels of external debt reduced investments in infrastructure. Over the last 20 years, Brazil has become the sixth largest economy in the world. more[...] login_required

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Vanhamme, Joëlle

Joëlle Vanhamme is Professor of Marketing at the Edhec Business School in France. more[...] login_required

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Kotler, Philip

Philip Kotler is Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg University Graduate School of Management in Chicago, USA. more[...] login_required

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An Evolving CSR System in Latin America

Prof. Paul Alexander Haslam, University of Ottawa

A decade ago, corporate social responsibility had only just emerged on the agendas of businesses operating in Latin America. Corporate commitments were limited to the largest firms, usually the multinationals; public awareness and demand for corporate responsibility was low; governments were uninvolved; and civil society organizations promoting CSR were still new and, for the most part, funded from elsewhere. more[...] login_required

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Lindgreen, Adam

Prof. Adam Lindgreen is Professor of Marketing at the University of Cardiff in Great Britain. more[...] login_required

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A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility

Prof. Adam Lindgreen, University of Cardiff

A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility provides a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge theories and research that can lead to a more multifaceted understanding of corporate social responsibility in its various forms, the pressures and conflicts that result from these different understandings, and some potential solutions for reconciling them. more[...] login_required

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Haslam, Paul Alexander

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When and How to Control the Influence of Family-Owned Business Groups?

Top corporate governance experts discuss latest research in emerging markets. Yishay Yafeh is an associate professor at Hebrew University’s School of Business Administration. more[...] login_required

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TeliaSonera partners with the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)

Telia Sonera

TeliaSonera has engaged the Danish Institute for Human Rights to support and review its human rights impact assessment. DIHR will develop a tool tailored to TeliaSonera and its human rights risk profile. It will include freedom of expression and privacy issues and be benchmarked on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. DIHR will also assess TeliaSonera’s consequential mitigation plan. more[...] login_required

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