The management of local and global stakeholders is one of the most critical aspects of the business imperative of multinational corporations.  This talk provides a outline and examples of this imperative within the context of modern stakeholder theory along with […]

The first decade of the 21st Century has heightened interest in the ethical and social positioning of companies.  However, one of the real dilemmas associated with the movement toward more “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) is the lack of any real […]

Over the last decade we have seen increased interest in the societal role of corporations.  A cursory Google time line indicates that up until around 1998 mentions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) was relatively constant and fairly low but since […]

Timothy Devinney, author of the recent book The Myth of the Ethical Consumer, spoke with Justmeans about the danger of assuming that consumers care about sustainability.  Devinney notes “The way in which people conceptualize social consumption is fundamentally wrong…. If […]

Despite differences of opinion about the efficacy of corporate social responsibility, there is a general consensus among academics, policy makers, and practitioners that corporations operate with a social sanction that requires that they operate within the norms and mores of […]

Katy Perry, singer of ‘I kissed a girl’, declares herself a ‘Red artist’. Georgio Armani, American Express, Starbucks, Apple, Dell – all these companies consider themselves to be ‘Red’, as do Converse, Bugaboo and Hallmark. They have pledged themselves to […]