Corporate Social Responsibility

Resources

This section of the website contains resources on corporate social responsibility that we use with the CSR initiative at St. Scholastica. We hope that you may find them useful as well. The content of these external CSR resources represents the views of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by St. Scholastica.

CSR Reports

Starbucks
Sony Group Report
Chevron
BASF
Business for Social Responsibility
Principles and Codes for socially responsible business practices

 

Responsible Investing

Social Funds - Personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing
Social Investment Forum - Directed at association members to promote and provide education around socially and environmentally responsible investing

Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Reports

Book review of Triple Bottom Line
TBL Reporting in Australia
Managing the TBL, a PBS interview

Social Action

Company citizenship - Global emphasis on social issues
International Labor Organization - Working papers on global social policy

 

Environmental Stewardship

 

The Materiality Report: Aligning Strategy Performance and Reporting

EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program

 

Counterpoints

The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits - Classic article by Milton Friedman
Corporate citizenship: Oxymoron or necessity? - Position paper and many blog comments
Is corporate social resposibility responsible?
CSR Watch - focused on monitoring CSR and SRI activists who target companies for appeasements and concessions that have adverse affects
CSR description and critique by Sourcewatch
Overview and critique of CSR by Bryane Michael
A pragmatic approach to CSR - Critique and recommendations
CSR debate - Milton Friedman, John Mackey, and T. J. Rodgers

 

CSR News

CSRWire - Global newsfeed on CSR events and news
Business for Social Responsibility - News, reports, and issue briefs
CSR Europe - Business news
Companies in the news
PRNews: CSR Awards 

Do you have additional resources which would be appropriate for the page? Please send a link to csr@css.edu which we will evaluate for inclusion.

The College of St. Scholastica's Library resources (only available to the CSS community).