Reports
The Best nonfinancial reports from UNGlobal Compacts COP’s on the internet.
Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Communications
Who’s Listening? Who’s Leading? What Matters Most?
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Edelman Design Communications and Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Companies With a Commitment to Sustainability Tend to Outperform Their Peers During the Financial Crisis with 15%.
These findings are the result of a study released today by A.T. Kearney, Inc, titled Green Winners: The Performance of Sustainability-focused Companies in the Financial Crisis, which looked at 99 companies identified as having a strong commitment to sustainability and compared their performance with industry averages. The 99 companies were defined by the Sustainability Index and the Goldman Sachs Sustain Focus List.
The analysis found that in 16 of the 18 industries studied, companies committed to sustainability outperformed industry averages by 15% over the six months from May through November 2008.
http://www.atkearney.com/main.taf?p=1,5,1,223
COMPETITIVE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:
Uncovering the Economic Rationale for Corporate Social Responsibility
among Danish Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
People & Profit Project
Danish Commerce and Companies Agency
Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs
Prepared by Mark Kramer, Marc Pfitzer, and Paul Lee
Foundation Strategy Group & Center for Business and Government John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Report Harvard
Reports from Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen (Danish Commerce and Companies Agency
Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitiveness EU 2008
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
European Competitiveness Report 2008
This is the eleventh edition of the Commission’s European Competitiveness Report since the
1994 Industry Council Resolution that established its basis.
Chapter 5 about CSR and Competitiveness, page 135-152
http://www.eurocharity.org/file_library/cr2008_sec_2008_2853.pdf
2007 Global Compact Annual Review
The Global Compact’s first Annual Review provides a comprehensive picture of the initiative and the efforts made by business and other stakeholders to advance the Global Compact’s mission and principles. The review reveals the results of the first in-depth survey of Global Compact participants looking at business actions across several key areas – management, policy implementation, partnerships and local involvement.
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/news_events/8.1/GCAnnualReview2007.pdf
2007 Global Compact Leaders Summit DVD.



