Corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) needs to be moved from theory and aspiration into practice through a proactive program of implementation and integration within the organization and throughout its stakeholder sphere of influence. The United Nations Global Compact, which has been...

Corporate social responsibility, or “CSR”, in the United States has its roots in the sustainability movement that began in the early 1960s, when environmentalists first raised concerns about the use of chemical pesticides by the general public and large corporations. Since then, CSR has...

While frameworks and suggestions for implementation of corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) do vary, there is almost no controversy that in order to make informed decisions about the content of a new CSR initiative, or changes to an existing program, the board of directors and members of...

It is believed that the term “stakeholder” in relation to organizations has been used since the 1930s, when Harvard Law Professor E. Merrick Dodd suggested that businesses had at least four major groups of stakeholders: shareowners, employees, customers and the general public. Decades later,...