There’s a yet-to-be-released study from Scotland that looks set to add to my conviction that Corporate Social Responsibility is a dangerous farce. Scotland’s Sunday Herald newspaper has run an article under the headline, “Study slams ‘trivial’ social responsibility reports“. The report is authored by Jan Bebbington and Rob Gray and as soon as I find [...]

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Are Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs a public relations placebo, designed to give the impression that businesses are determined to create a healthy and sustainable world, while in reality they operate with little real change? Are CSR programs, sustainability indexes and responsibility tables lulling us into a false sense of security? Deborah Doane from CORE [...]

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Here are some of my notes from a presentation made by Ray Anderson. Ray is the Founder and Chair of Interface Corporation, a ‘modular flooring’ (carpet) business that claims to have set sustainability at the core of its business model. You can see Ray Anderson talk about his business in the documentary, The Corporation. Please [...]

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In case you are interested in what’s been keeping me busy over the past few days, it’s preparing to speak at the CSR summit in Sydney. It’s sponsored by the Australian Industry Group, which represents “10,000 employers in manufacturing, construction, automotive, telecommunications, IT & call centres, transport, labour hire and other industries”. It’s great that [...]

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Do companies offer the world anything except products and pollution? Should they offer more? Or less? “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) and “Triple Bottom Line” (TBL) attempt to measure the contribution companies make (positive and negative) to their communities. While these concepts have been around for a few decades, application by large organisations has only started [...]

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