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- 2001 Student Attitudes Survey
This research began in 1999 when the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program began studying MBA student attitudes on the role of business in society and the impact of their MBA education on the...
Citation: 2001 Student Attitudes Survey. 2001. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic, Economic - Social, Indigenous People
- 2003 Student Attitudes Survey
This research study continues the work started in 1999 at the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program. This research reports documented our2003 research findings on the impact of MBA education...
Citation: 2003 Student Attitudes Survey. 2003. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Policy
- 2008 IUCN-ICMM Roundtable
The overarching goal for the roundtable was to identify the next steps and recommendations to address issues and challenges related to legacy mines specifically concerning funding and finance, legislation, partnerships, and knowledge sharing....
Citation: International Council on Mining & Metals. 2009. 2008 IUCN-ICMM Roundtable. Roundtable Report (March 2-3, 2008). International Council on Mining & Metals.
Areas of Interest: Development, Economic - Environmental, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- A Closer Look at Applied Sustainability Centers
discusses the rise of academic centers with a focus on applied sustainability, primarily in environmental subjects, and examines a number of those centers in detail. Our hope in offering this informat...
Citation: The 2008 Student Attitudes Survey. 2008. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Sustainability
- A Light but Effective Touch: Conservative Party Working Group on Responsible Business
ECI has been working with the UK Conservative Party since 2006 in order to produce a modern responsible business policy report. ECI has led the process, set up and facilitated an expert working group....
Citation: A Light but effective Touch: Conservative Party Working Group on Responsible Business. 2008. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Public Policy
- A Resource Guide to Corporate Human Rights Reporting
This resource guide is designed to help organizations in beginning the process of identifying relevant human rights issues in their operations and to assist them in translating existing and planned practices into meaningful and effective reporting. Public reporting on human rights is, of course, a work in progress. The Global Reporting Initiative, Realizing Rights and the United Nations Global Compact stand ready to support companies and other organizations in advancing their efforts in this important area of corporate responsibility and encourage feedback on this resource guide from all interested parties....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Realizing Rights and the United Nations Global Compact, A Resource Guide to Corporate Human Rights Reporting, GRI, 2009.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- Abandoned Mines in Canada
WOM Geological Associates Inc. was retained by MiningWatch Canada to undertake a survey of abandoned mine inventories in Canada. Questionnaires were sent to provincial and federal agencies, requesting information on inventories, number of abandoned mines, testing and remediation completed, and current management policy....
Citation: W.O. Mackasey, WOM Geological Associates Inc. 2000. Abandoned Mines in Canada. MiningWatch Canada.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Public Policy, Resource Extraction
- Acid Mine Drainage. Mining and Water Pollution Issues
Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is the biggest environmental threat from mining in British Columbia. Water resources are particularly affected. This report introduces issues, profiles key sites, and identifies outstanding concerns. Published by BC Wild and Environmental Mining Council of BC....
Citation: BC Wild and Environmental Mining Council of BC. [2001]. Acid Mine Drainage. Mining and Water Pollution Issues. Environmental Mining Council of BC.
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Resource Extraction
- Alternative Energy Sources in Cement Manufacturing: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge
The most comprehensive and credible evidence to date on alternative energy for cement manufacturing. Systematic review of more than 110 applied and academic studies. The use of alternative fuels in cement manufacturing was found to generally lead to a reduction in greenhouse gasses and criteria air contaminants compared to the use of fossil fuels....
Citation: Network for Business Sustainability. 2011. Alternative Energy Sources in Cement Manufacturing: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Economic - Environmental, Environment & Business, Sustainability
- Are You the Next Enron? Why you might be . . . and what to do about it
A Conference Board survey finds that even corporate ethics officers believe there is still more talk than action going on when it comes to ethics in the business world....
Citation: Radzin, John. 2002. Are You the Next Enron? Why you might be . . . and what to do about it: The Conference Board New York.
- Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics
The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations. The paper seeks to find a balance b...
Citation: L. Hartman, B. Shaw and R. Stevenson. 1999. Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics. University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Development, Economic, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Public Policy, Theory
- Barrick Gold Faces Heightened Risk at the Porgera Operation
Barrick Gold Corporation faces heightened human rights and security risks at its Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG). As part of ongoing monitoring of Barrick Gold's environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, and based on new information from local human rights organizations, news media, interviews with Barrick Gold and other sources, Jantzi Research provides an assessment of the situation....
Citation: Jantzi Research. 2009. Barrick Gold Faces Heightened Risk at the Porgera Operation. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Human Rights, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction
- Best Practices in Responsible Investment for Canadian Pension Plans
This report provides an overview of responsible investment (RI) in Canada - the trends, the drivers, the global initiatives and how the Canadian pension community is involved. More importantly, however, it provides recommendations that could help pension funds move from consideration of RI to implementation....
Citation: Mercer (Canada) Limited. 2009. Best Practices in Responsible Investment for Canadian Pension Plans. Social Investment Organization.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance - Transparency, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Bitter Harvest: Child Labour in the Cocoa Supply Chain
Lotte Greik (interim research manager, Timisoara), Jennifer Penikett (analyst) and Esther Hougee (Director, Research Products) analyse the key impacts and risk associated with the cocoa supply chain and explore best practices to achieve sustainability and fair trade....
Citation: Griek, Lotte, Jennifer Penikett and Esther Hougee. 2010. Bitter Harvest: Child Labour in the Cocoa Supply Chain. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour, Sustainability
- BP's Deepening Horizons
Dayna Linley and Alberto Serna Martin (analysts) examine the risks faces by investor in oil and gas companies and the industry explores more remote regions and pursues unconventional methods of extraction. The April 20 [2010] explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico triggered serious questions about the roles of the companies involved....
Citation: Linley, Dayna and Alberto Serna Martin. 2010. BP's Deepening Horizon.Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Resource Extraction, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Brave New World: Investors and Nanotechnology
Stephanie LeNguyen, analyst, looks into the increased usage of nanomaterials in consumer goods and the potential regulatory and reputational risks posed by exposure to nanotechnology....
Citation: LeNguyen, Stephanie. 2010. Brave New World: Investors and Nanotechnology. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Breaking the Cycle of Urban Poverty
Millions of people around the world live in informal urban communities where a lack of resources leads to degradation of the environment. Deteriorating environmental conditions, in turn, create more p...
Citation: Dale, Stephen. 2008. Breaking the Cycle of Urban Poverty: IDRC.
Areas of Interest: Development, Health, Poverty
- Bridging the Chasm: Canadian Energy and Mining Companies and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
This paper describes the business risks for companies operating in countries where the HIV/AIDS pandemic has taken hold and what companies need to do to help fight the war on AIDS....
Citation: Ethical Funds Company. 2005. Canadian Energy and Mining Companies and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Bridging the Chasm. The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Health, Resource Extraction
- Building Public Trust in Canadian Organizations: Preliminary Findings
Public opinion surveys have warned of a decline in levels of public trust. Although the extent of the decline is open to debate, such skepticism is troubling.This report examines the reasons for low...
Citation: Ezekiel, Zachariah. 2005. Building Public Trust in Canadian Organizations: Preliminary Findings The Conference Board of Canada.
- Business Adaptation to Climate Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature
This systematic review synthesized the entire body of research on business adaptation to climate change, reviewing thousands of studies from academia and practice. Provides a helpful list of the risks and opportunities for many of the leading sectors dealing with climate change. Includes case studies on how several of the world's leading companies are adapting to climate change. Identifies tools to help businesses assess risks, evaluate opportunities and implement adaptation options....
Citation: Network for Business Sustainability. 2009. Business Adaptation to Climate Change: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Climate Change, Environment & Business, Leadership, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Business Against Corruption: A Framework for Action
n This report is a guide to companies preparing themselves to implement the objectives set out in UN's tenth principle to fight corruption within business operations. It examines why companies should fight corruption and outlines a number of practical steps to fight internal and external corruption....
Citation: S. Cote-Freeman, B. Errath, P Brew, J. Moberg and J. Brooks. 2006. Business Against Corruption: A Framework for Action. Global Compact.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Codes of Conduct, Corruption, Leadership
- Business and Human Rights Management Paper
A study of eight companies and their approaches to business and human rights management....
Citation: Business and Human Rights Management Paper. 2004. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Human Rights
- Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework
This report recapitulates the key features of the “protect, respect and remedy” framework and outlines the strategic directions of the Special Representative’s work streams to date in operationalizing the framework. [Sections are:I. IntroductionII. The...
Citation: Ruggie, John. 2009. Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework: United Nations.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour, Public Policy
- Business Conduct Codes: Why Corporations Hesitate
A survey of companies looks at how sensitive the issue of code and guideline endorsement is for corporations and why....
Citation: Ronald E. Berenbeim; Sophia A Muirhead. 2002. Business Conduct Codes: Why Corporations Hesitate: The Conference Board New York.
- Business Ethics and Compliance in Russia
Practical information to develop local compliance strategies and overcome corruption challenges Reduce your financial and operational risks from corruption and non-compliance with this upcoming repor...
Citation: Business Ethics and Compliance in Russia. 2008. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance - Transparency, Corruption
- Business Ethics in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Industries: Codes of Conduct
Reviews use of codes, compares exisiting codes and recommends a standard code. Codes covered include those of Levi Strauss, Sara Lee, Phillips-van Heusen, The Gap, Reebok and Nike....
Citation: Sajhau, Jean-Paul. 1997. Business Ethics in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Industries: Codes of Conduct. Sectoral Activities Programme, International Labour Organization.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct
- Can Ethical Trade Certification Contribute to the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals? A Review of Organic and Fair-trade Certification
The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could potentially contribute towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper examines the impact of the conditions for organic certification and fair-trade certification on the achievement of the MDG targets....
Citation: Setboonsarng, S. 2008. Can Ethical Trade Certification Contribute to the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals? A Review of Organic and Fair-trade Certification. In ADB Institute Discussion Paper: ADB Institute.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Certification, Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Development
- Canada: Development Assistance Committee. Peer Review
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development undertakes regular peer reviews on the practices of member countries' development policies and practices. This report discusses the strengths...
Citation: Canada: Development Assistance Committee. Peer Review. 2007. Development Assistance Committee, OECD.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Development, Poverty
- Canadian Business Sustainability Challenges 2012
This report presents the key sustainability challenges facing leading businesses for 2012. These priorities were established by a council of executives from Canadian organizations recognized for their leadership in sustainability. Representing major sectors of the economy, these leaders gatheredfor a one-day roundtable facilitated by Dr. Tima Bansal, Executive Director of the Network for Business Sustainability....
Citation: Network
for
Business Sustainability. 2012. Canadian Business Sustainability Challenges 2012. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Labour - Employee, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability, Theory - Stakeholder
- Canadian Business Sustainability Priorities 2011
This report describes the key areas where businesses have requested better knowledge. The top ten issues have been identified by our Leadership Council: a council of managers from leading organizations across major sectors of the economy. The purpose of this report is to inspire new research in these issues. Armed with this knowledge, researchers, managers and others can collaborate to innovate new solutions....
Citation: Network
for
Business Sustainability. 2011. Canadian Business
Sustainability Priorities 2011. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved
from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Indigenous People, Labour - Employee, Leadership, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Canadian Commercial Real Estate Sustainability Performance Report
This report, released by Sustainalytics in association with the Real Property Association of Canada (REALPac) evaluates the ESG performance of 18 of Canada's largest commercial real estate companies and compares them to some of their international counterparts. The findings suggest that the Canadian commercial real estate industry is playing catch-up with respect to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when compared to international peers....
Citation: MacMahon, Simon. 2010. Canadian Commercial Real Estate Sustainability Performance Report. Jantzi-Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Canadian Energy and Mining Companies: Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st Century
This paper describes why energy and mining companies need to establish systems for avoiding prosecution for human rights violations under international humanitarian law....
Citation: Ethical Funds Company. 2005. Canadian Energy and Mining Companies: Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the 21st Century. In Sustainability Perspectives: The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Human Rights, Public Policy
- Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Review 2008: A comprehensive survey of socially responsible investment in Canada
This Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Review is the only comprehensive survey of socially responsible investment (SRI) in Canada. Now in its fifth edition, the document has been produced by the Social Investment Organization every two years since 2000. The study is based on data collected between September 2008 and January 2009 through a survey of money managers and social finance providers....
Citation: Social Investment Organization. 2009. Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Review 2008: A comprehensive survey of socially responsible investment in Canada. Social Investment Organization.
Areas of Interest: SRI/Responsible Investment
- Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Review 2010: A comprehensive survey of socially responsible investment in Canada
This report is the only comprehensive survey of socially responsible investment (SRI) in Canada. Now in its sixth edition, the document has been produced by the Social Investment Organization every two years since 2000. The study is based on data collected between September 2010 and February 2011 through a survey of money managers and impact investment providers....
Citation: Social
Investment Organization. 2011. Canadian Socially Responsible Investment
Review 2010: A comprehensive survey of socially responsible investment
in Canada. Social Investment Organization.
Areas of Interest: SRI/Responsible Investment
- CBSR's Good Company Guidelines
These guidelines, created by CBSR in 2002, are a practical tool to enable companies to assess, improve and report on their social, environmental and financial performance. By using the GoodCompany Gui...
Citation: CBSR's GoodCompany Guidelines. 2002. Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR).
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic - Environmental, Economic - Social
- Changing the Rules for Businesses
Businesses in a smattering of Latin American cities now enjoy a quick and simple registration process. Many more municipalities are implementing simplification programs. A new body, the Business Regul...
Citation: Changing the Rules for Businesses. 2008. IDRC.
Areas of Interest: Development, Public Policy - Regulation
- CIDA's Partnership with Mining Companies Fails to Acknowledge and Address the Role of Mining in the Creation of Development Deficits
In late 2011 the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development started to study the "Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Canada's International Development Interests." Among others, the Committee heard from the Executive Director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, as well as from a senior vice president of Teck Resources. Mining companies argue that they can deliver on Canada's international development interests in partnership with development NGOs. The Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA, is now funding three "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR) projects at Canadian mine sites overseas. MiningWatch does not believe that this constitutes a responsible use of public funds and that these CSR projects do not address the development deficits created by mining at the national and local levels in developing countries. This is our submission to the Standing Committee....
Citation: Coumans, Catherine. 2012. CIDA's Partnership with Mining Companies Fails to Acknowledge and Address the Role of Mining in the Creation of Development Deficits. MiningWatch Canada.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Resource Extraction
- Cluster Munitions, Public Policy and Investor Risk
Matthew Barg, analyst, explores the issue of dis-investment from controversial weapons, such as cluster munitions....
Citation: Barg, Matthew. 2010. Cluster Munitions, Public Policy and Investor Risk. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Public Policy - Regulation, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Company Programs for Resisting Corrupt Practices: A Global Study
Although universally prohibited and the target of global efforts to be reduced or eliminated, the bribery of government officials to obtain business advantage continues to be a serious problem worldwi...
Citation: Berenbeim, Ronald E. 2000. Company Programs for Resisting Corrupt Practices: A Global Study. New York: The Conference Board New York.
- Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility
This compendium of ethics codes and instruments of corporate responsibility was been compiled as a companion to the book Ethics Codes, Corporations and the Challenge of Globalization edited by Wesley...
Citation: McKague, Kevin. 2006. Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility, edited by W. Cragg. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Schulich School of Business, York University.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Codes of Conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour - Employee, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Compensation That Corrupts: How Rewards Affect Ethical Behaviour
Almost half of the 1,324 participants of a recent U.S. study admitted that they engaged in unethical or illegal actions in the workplace. These included such acts as: lying to customers (9 per cent);...
Citation: Choquette, Mary. 1999. Compensation That Corrupts: How Rewards Affect Ethical Behaviour: The Conference Board of Canada.
- Complicity in the Congo: Investor Risk in the Minerals Supply Chain
Azadeh Sabour, senior sustainability consultant, explores the potential risks associated with the production and trade in high value minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and how technology companies and their investors can mitigate their risk of complicity and improve the situation on the ground....
Citation: Sabour, Azadeh. 2010. Complicity in the Congo: Investor Risk in the Minerals Supply Chain. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Resource Extraction, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Considering Nuclear in a Time of Climate Change
The nuclear power industry is touted as a primary strategy to fight climate change. We review this statement in light of our nuclear screen....
Citation: Ethical Funds Company. 2007. Considering Nuclear in a Time of Climate Change. In Sustainability Perspectives: The Ethical Funds Company.
Areas of Interest: Climate Change
- Consumer-oriented offers of CSR information in selected EU-countries
Report on a joint project on consumer-oriented offers of CSR information in six EU-countries, with IMUG Hannover, Germany for the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection...
Citation: D. Matten and M. Pincham. 2006. Consumer-oriented offers of CSR information in selected EU-countries. London.
- Corporate Citizens, Colonialists, Tourists or Activists? Ethical Challenges Facing South African Corporations in Africa
With a particular focus on South African companies, this article assesses concepts and ideas of ethical behaviour of international businesses. Given the dominance of South African companies in other African countries, there are interesting similarities between global multinational corporations and their impact on the rest of the world, and South African corporations and their smaller-scale impact on the rest of Africa....
Citation: Malan, D. 2005. Corporate Citizens, Colonialists, Tourists or Activists? Ethical Challenges Facing South African Corporations in Africa. South Africa: Greenleaf Publishing. JCC 18 (Summer): 49-60.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Theory
- Corporate Governance
Corporate governance (CG) is one of the most talked about topics in business, indeed in society, today. A Google search revealed 513 news citations during a single week in June 2006. Most academics, b...
Citation: Social Entrepreneurship. 2006. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Consumer Issues, Development, Economic - Social, Gender, Globalization, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty
- Corporate Governance and Accountability: What Do We Know and What Do We Teach Future Business Leaders?
This paper was presented by Mary Gentile at the 3rd Colloquium of the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS). The conference, entitled "The Challenges of Sustainable Growth: Integrating Socie...
Citation: Gentile, Mary C. Corporate Governance and Accountability: The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education, Leadership, Theory, Theory - Shareholder
- Corporate Governance and the Cost of Equity Capital: Evidence from GMI’s Governance Rating
This research note describes how the corporate governance attributes of publicly listed companies are received by financial markets. At the heart of our study is the relation between firms’ corporate governance ratings and their cost of equity capital....
Citation: Jeroen Derwall; Patrick Verwijmeren. 2007. Corporate Governance and the Cost of Equity Capital: Evidence from GMI's Governance Rating: ECCE.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Governance, SRI/Responsible Investment
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