Corporate responsibility

Whose Corporate Social Responsibility?

(l) Forest ethics and corporate responsibility

In the ensuing discussion, questions were raised regarding the precise definitions of general terms such as corporate responsibility , corporate social responsibility and positive corporate contribution , and regarding the notion of a corporate responsibility for development, as well as UNCTAD's mandate in this regard.

Corporate responsibility in this regard could, for

Corporate responsibility has been established at the highest level.

Initiatives to promote corporate social responsibility should be voluntary.

Global Corporate Governance Codes. Investor Responsibility Research Center, Washington, D.C.

Nevertheless, many corporate responsibility initiatives currently came directly from industry.

Programme Component D.6 SME Export Consortia and Corporate Social Responsibility

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The publication Corporate Social Responsibility and the Development Agenda Should SMEs Care?

It was also important to place corporate responsibility in its proper context.

Civil society and corporate sector, which would contribute to the initiative, ruled by principles of corporate responsibility and social, cultural, environmental and technical sustainability.

JPK Working Group I on Corporate Governance in Malaysia (2000). Report on Corporate Governance in Malaysia.

Comitato per la Corporate Governance delle Società Quotate (Committee for the Corporate Governance of Listed Companies) (1999). Report and Code of Conduct (Preda Report).

Corporate responsibility was reflected under subprogramme 2, in response to paragraph 58 of the São Paulo Consensus.

The European Union welcomed the ongoing international debate on corporate social responsibility, business ethics, accountability and transparency.

Two possible approaches include putting all corporate governance disclosures in a separate section of the annual report, or putting them in a stand alone corporate governance report.

Brussels Stock Exchange (1998). Report of the Belgium Commission on Corporate Governance (Cardon Report).

14. Reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

IFPMA and its member organisations (as well as individual corporations) do carry out Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities.

12. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

11. Further reaffirms the need to promote corporate responsibility and accountability as envisaged by the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

Cadbury Commission (1992). Report of the Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (Cadbury Report).

The report does not provide any proposals for addressing the problems arising from the export of polluting technologies from developed to developing countries, the conduct of transnational companies and the issue of corporate responsibility and accountability.

And I found it fascinating that the social responsibility team was not formed as part of some grand corporate strategy.

The panellist from the UN Research Institute for Social Development reflected on the institutional and policy dimensions of corporate responsibility.

Developing countries demand not only that foreign investors should exercise corporate responsibility they need to be transparent in their operations.

The importance of ensuring corporate social responsibility and accountability, including with regard to the rights of workers, was also stressed.

Toronto Stock Exchange Committee on Corporate Governance in Canada (1994). Where Were the Directors? Guidelines for Improved Corporate Governance in Canada (Dey Report).

Capital Market Commission's Committee on Corporate Governance in Greece (1999). Principles on Corporate Governance in Greece Recommendations for Its Competitive Transformation (Mertzanis Report).

The corporate governance structures in place to assess, manage and report on these types of risks should be the subject of corporate governance disclosure.

You know, it's now time for corporate responsibility to really look at what they feed or make available to their staff.

Where there was a need for corporate standards and regulatory enforcement, it was the responsibility of the particular Governments to act.

Third report on responsibility of international organizations

To engage in a pro active dialogue on matters related to corporate developmental responsibility and good corporate governance of Transnational Corporations, which entails maximizing their contribution to the economic and social development of host developing countries.

(a) Differences in philosophy and approach between civil and common law traditions concerning management or control of corporate groups and related companies and in approaches to director responsibility and liability in the context of corporate groups

To properly address this issue would not only require appropriate measures to promote FDI but also be a question of corporate responsibility.

Committee Appointed by the SEBI on Corporate Governance under Chairmanship of Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla (2002) Report of the Kumar Mangalam Birla Committee on Corporate Governance.

Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (1994). The King I Report on Corporate Governance.

Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (2002). The King II Report on Corporate Governance.

(a) To identify and clarify standards of corporate responsibility and accountability for transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights

Other important issues included Corporate Social Responsibility and a development oriented coherence between national development strategies and decisions emanating from international financial institutions.

Corporate social responsibility for development by TNCs in Africa, which entailed maximizing TNCs for the economic and social development of host States, was imperative.