• Managing Corporate Legitimacy and the UN Global Compact

    Prof. Andreas Georg Scherer, University of Zurich
    Dr. Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, University of Zürich

    In this article, we explain why managing legitimacy is vital for corporations and how business firms can employ strategies to maintain their legitimacy. We then discuss the organizational capacities that each legitimacy strategy implies and point out their inherent tensions. Based on the results of an empirical study, we show how two large corporations have handled these tensions and successfully introduced organizational prerequisites for managing legitimacy. In the final part of this article we elaborate on how participants of the UN Global Compact can use the initiative to strengthen their legitimacy.  more[...]

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  • Road Safety – Fundamental Right and Everybody’s Responsibility

    Natalia Gonchar, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company
    Sakhalin Energy

    We drive and bike, walk, and even run trying to catch the rhythm of modern life. For most of us, traffic has become an integral part of our everyday routines. We take it for granted and do not consider the road to be a source of constant danger – until suddenly a car accident happens and we are forced to reconsider … and think. Each year nearly 1.24 million people die as a result of road traffic accidents. It means that more than 3,300 are killed on the road every day.  more[...]

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  • Road Safety – Fundamental Right and Everybody’s Responsibility

    Natalia Gonchar, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company

    We drive and bike, walk, and even run trying to catch the rhythm of modern life. For most of us, traffic has become an integral part of our everyday routines. We take it for granted and do not consider the road to be a source of constant danger – until suddenly a car accident happens and we are forced to reconsider … and think. Each year nearly 1.24 million people die as a result of road traffic accidents. It means that more than 3,300 are killed on the road every day.  more[...]

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  • Managing CSR Across Boundaries

    Andrew Lofts, Ricoh Europe
    Ricoh Europe PLC

    From the very beginning, Ricoh has been energized by combining innovative products and services with a sustainable approach to business. The company’s founder, Kiyoshi Ichimura, nurtured a unique pool of thinkers who envisioned a world where business, society, and the planet are interconnected. For Ricoh, which is present in more than 200 countries and employs more than 100,000 people, it is a major challenge to share a consistent theme and to ensure a clear message that is understood everywhere. As a group, we have a regional framework whereby we connect to the collective imagination and creativity of all our people. To support Ricoh’s goals and meet social expectations, accurately and promptly, the Ricoh Group actively introduces internationally established CSR frameworks throughout its supply chain.  more[...]

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  • Managing CSR Across Boundaries

    Andrew Lofts, Ricoh Europe
    Ricoh Europe PLC

    From the very beginning, Ricoh has been energized by combining innovative products and services with a sustainable approach to business. The company’s founder, Kiyoshi Ichimura, nurtured a unique pool of thinkers who envisioned a world where business, society, and the planet are interconnected. For Ricoh, which is present in more than 200 countries and employs more than 100,000 people, it is a major challenge to share a consistent theme and to ensure a clear message that is understood everywhere. As a group, we have a regional framework whereby we connect to the collective imagination and creativity of all our people. To support Ricoh’s goals and meet social expectations, accurately and promptly, the Ricoh Group actively introduces internationally established CSR frameworks throughout its supply chain.  more[...]

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  • The Global Social Enterprise Action Hub

    SK Telecom

    As social and environmental issues change and become more complex, a new approach is required beyond the existing efforts of governments, NGOs, and corporations to tackle global challenges. In this regard, social enterprises are becoming significant players in bolstering global sustainability and addressing social challenges in innovative and sustainable ways. With the objectives of creating both economic and social value, social enterprises adopt managerial efficiency and market mechanisms in their social operations to offer more customized and efficient solutions that deliver larger and more sustainable impacts.  more[...]

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  • Comprehensive Ways of Communication on Anti-Corruption Measures and Compliance

    Jenice Hartmann, Business Keeper
    Business Keeper AG

    Nowadays, there is agreement within companies and the public that neither corruption nor other contraventions of national and international regulations are acceptable. Corruption causes an estimated economic harm of up to $4 trillion per year; the number of unreported cases and not quantifiable social harm through the erosion of trust and the economic systems is much higher. As is publically known, companies such as Wal-Mart, Monsanto, and General Electric were strongly sanctioned by government and society for their corrupt business activities. In times of financial crisis, a sustainable business model is more important than ever to ensure the necessary social acceptance and “license to operate.”  more[...]

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  • For a Financial Education Culture

    Tita Berton, Bradesco
    Banco Bradesco S.A.

    Bradesco is committed to its stakeholders’ financial education and believes in social transformation through knowledge and awareness fostered by several actions.  more[...]

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  • Ayeyarwady Bank’s Commitment to the Community

    May Myat Thu, Ayeyarwady Bank
    Ayeyarwady Bank

    Ayeyarwady Bank commits to making the United Nations Global Compact’s Ten Principles part of its strategies and practices, focusing on fulfilling corporate social responsibility toward the communities it serves.  more[...]

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  • Corporate Governance: The Way to Sustainable Finance

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Arab African International Bank (AAIB) firmly believes that the road to impactful corporate governance entails values that achieve sustainable businesses as an end goal – AAIB seeks to maintain the balance between economic growth, profitability, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns.  more[...]

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  • Corporate Governance: The Way to Sustainable Finance

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Arab African International Bank (AAIB) firmly believes that the road to impactful corporate governance entails values that achieve sustainable businesses as an end goal – AAIB seeks to maintain the balance between economic growth, profitability, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns.  more[...]

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  • Where Next for the Circular Economy?

    Prof. Wayne Visser, Kaleidoscope Futures

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    Prof. Wayne Visser, Kaleidoscope Futures 
     
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    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business 
     
  • Unilever and responsible capitalism: a "licence to lead"

    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business

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    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business 
     
 
 
 
 

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