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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

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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

http://eogs.dk/sw28291.asp

 

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

 

 

pri.jpg2007 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.
The 2007 Global Compact Leaders Summit, the largest event ever organized by the UN on the topic of corporate citizenship, gathered more than 1,000 Chief Executives, Government Ministers and Heads of Civil Society and Labour Organizations. This DVD presents a comprehensive documentation of the Summit, including a video archive of speeches and presentations, studies and reports, major initiatives as well as an extensive library of photographs.

 

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