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 »
Build it (green) and they will buy?
Posted in activists, brands, business, climate change, co-responsibility, communications, companies, consumers, corporate citizenship, CSR, CSV, environment, global warming, green, marketing, messaging, products, responsibility, Shared Value, sustainability, tagged communications, consumers, CSR, environment, green, sustainability on July 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Everything seems to be turning green. And there is nothing wrong with that – companies creating new, innovative products and services that are good for them and good for the environment. But consumers haven’t completely bought into this yet. A number of green products aren’t flying off the shelves the way companies anticipated. Why is [...]
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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