Origins
CSR International is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise) founded and directed by Dr Wayne Visser in 2008 and launched in London in March 2009 to promote CSR 2.0, an evolved concept of corporate sustainability and responsibility (CSR). Read more about the Founder.
Passion
We are a community of professionals, students and enthusiasts who are deeply concerned about the world’s social and environmental problems and profoundly inspired by the potential of business to contribute to the solutions. Read more about the role of business in an Age of Responsibility.
Purpose
We strive to be an incubator for CSR 2.0 inspired, knowledge-based solutions. CSR 2.0 moves beyond defensive, charitable, promotional and strategic CSR to Transformative CSR (also called systemic or radical CSR), based on the principles of creativity, scalability, responsiveness, glocality and circularity. Read more about CSR 2.0.
Approach
We provide leading-edge content to advance progressive CSR thinking and practice, including publications (books, chapters, reports, cases), multimedia (podcasts, videos), courses (training, e-learning, postgraduate), events (conferences, workshops), speakers (keynotes, lecturers) and tools (diagnostics, crowdsourcing). Visit our Shop for more.
Membership
Our members are corporate sustainability & responsibility (CSR) professionals, students and enthusiasts from business, government, academia and civil society. Different levels of membership – Standard, Silver and Gold – give access to different levels of free content (downloads, etc.) and other benefits. Read more about Joining.
Forums
Membership gives access to the CSR International Forum, a virtual interactive space powered by the OpenEyeWorld crowdsourcing platform. In addition, we encourage the establishment of CSR International Country Chapters, which operate as non-virtual national activity groups for CSR. Read more about the Forum and Countries.
Publications
We run a number of research-related projects, including compiling The World Guide to CSR, an analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility in 5 regions and 58 countries, and compiling the new CSR 2.0 Index. We also publish a members’ Directory of Organisations. Read more about the Directory.
Downloads
Downloads like these listed below (and many more) are free for Members. The number of free downloads varies by membership level (Standard, Silver, Gold). Read more about Joining.
- The Ages and Stages of CSR: Towards the Future with CSR 2.0, by Wayne Visser, 10 pages. [More info | Download | Purchase]
- The DNA Model of CSR 2.0: Value Creation, Good Governance, Societal Contribution and Ecological Integrity, by Wayne Visser, 2 pages. [More info | Download | Purchase]
- The Ages and Stages of CSR: From Defensive to Transformative Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility, by Wayne Visser, 2 pages. [More info | Download | Purchase]
- The Rise and Fall of CSR: Three Curses of CSR 1.0 and Five Principles of CSR 2.0, by Wayne Visser, 2 pages. [More info | Download | Purchase]
- The Rise and Fall of CSR: Shapeshifting from CSR 1.0 to CSR 2.0, by Wayne Visser, 8 pages. [More info | Download | Purchase]
- CSR 2.0: The New Era of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, by Wayne Visser, 2 pages. [More info | Download | Purchase]
- The Long Tail of CSR: Achieving Scalability in Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, by Wayne Visser, 2 pages. [More info | Download | Purchase]
