Something has been bugging me for a while now. It’s not a new issue but something that has been slapping me on the head daily for the last few months more than it has done in the past. Maybe it is the continued economic struggles the world is going through. Maybe it is the Occupy [...]
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Is Sustainability Just A Band-Aid?
Posted in activism, Africa, business, business realism, business strategy, capitalism, cars, climate change, co-responsibility, community, companies, compensation, consumers, consumption, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, cost, CSR, CSV, culture, earnings, emissions, energy, environment, ethics, global, global warming, leadership, manufacturing, money, mutual responsibility, poverty, products, profits, public responsibility, purpose, realism, recession, responsibility, revenues, Shared Value, shareholders, society, sustainability, Uncategorized, value, values, tagged capitalism, consumption, CSR, environment, parity, products, profits, purchase, shared value, society, sustainability, system on December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
How about some “activist realism” for business?
Posted in activism, activist realism, activists, business, business associations, charity, co-responsibility, communications, community, companies, consumers, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, engagement, ethics, green, leadership, messaging, mutual responsibility, NGOs, nonprofit, partnerships, philanthropy, profits, realism, responsibility, society, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, tagged activist realism, business, business realism, CSR, NGOs, shareholders, stakeholders, sustainability on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t planning on writing a blog today but this piece in my favorite newspaper, The Guardian (yes, I am the typical lefty reader), made me roll my eyes. The piece is very well intended and generally pretty good advice for charities – Charity funding: How to approach business for help. I agree that charities [...]
The Mythmakers II: Andreau’s Corporate Sustainability is still CSR
Posted in Andreau, business, co-responsibility, companies, Corporate Sustainability, CSR, CSV, ethics, Kramer, mutual responsibility, philanthropy, Porter, profits, responsibility, Shared Value, society, terminology, value, values, tagged Andreau, business, Corporate Sustainability, CSR, sustainability, terminology, value, values on February 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week I focused most of my The Mythmakers: The end of CSR. Again. on Porter and Kramer’s shared value or CSV. I did mention Alberto Andreau’s argument that Shifting From CSR To CSV Isn’t The Solution and that the truth and future lies in Corporate Sustainability. I ran out of space and didn’t really give enough attention to Andreau’s [...]
The Mythmakers: The end of CSR. Again.
Posted in Andreau, business, civil society, co-responsibility, communications, community, corporate citizenship, Corporate Sustainability, CSR, CSV, engagement, Karmani, Kramer, mutual responsibility, philanthropy, Porter, responsibility, Shared Value, society, sustainability, terminology, transparency, value, values, tagged Andreau, Corporate Sustainability, CSR, CSV, Kramer, Porter, semantics, society, sustainbility, terminology, value on February 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
It feels like 1990 all over again. How many times do we go through these arguments that CSR is dead or CSR isn’t a very good description or that CSR is so yesterday. It seems as if we are back at the drawing board again. First we had Aneel Karnani make his Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility in the [...]
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