As businesses increasingly strive to live up to their stated values, considerable reputation risk lingers within their supply chains around substandard labor practices, environmental degradation, ...

How businesses spend their money can affect issues around the globe. Corporate social responsibility (CSR), a commitment to meeting or exceeding ethical, legal and commercial public expectations, not ...

James M. Roberts' primary responsibility was to edit the Rule of Law and Monetary Freedom sections of Index of Economic Freedom. Abstract: Activist groups and statist bureaucrats at the United Nations ...

Mandatory CSR spending can reduce perceived corporate benefits, leading to lower investor confidence and a higher cost of equity for Indian companies as investors may interpret the mandated ...

More than just a “philanthropic” exercise, international Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards can help a company gain valuable “intelligence” that may in fact reduce the risk of a business ...

The private and public sectors have been urged to benchmark their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities with international standards. Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) Managing Director ...

Companies are increasingly aware that human rights problems are bad for business. Human rights issues are having a decided impact on how companies do business. In a survey of the world’s 500 largest ...