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1. Key Challenges and Industry Performance
In the latest poll, a panel of more than 500 global sustainability experts and practitioners highlight society’s ongoing challenge of managing or addressing climate change effectively. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. Green Gauge US Report
The GfK Green Gauge US Report has been examining environmental attitudes and behaviors of global consumers since 1992. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Integrating Energy Efficiency across the Power Sector Value Chain
The report provides insights on the potential and key drivers for energy efficiency within the power sector value chain. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
4. Climate Change and Greek Business: Risks and Opportunities
A report was recently published within the framework of the European co-funded under LIFE instrument climabiz project, run by Piraeus Bank in partnership with WWF Greece and Facets. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
5. Benchmarking Sustainability Goals: Non/Alcoholic Beverages
The report provides a quantitative analysis of the sustainability goals of leading makers of non-alcoholic beverages globally. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
6. Reducing Water Use within the Food and Drink Industry
The Federal House Commitment’s latest annual report shows the progress on reducing the water use in UK. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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1. Time to Reimagine Development?
‘Time to Reimagine Development?’ is the latest issue of the IDS Bulletin, the flagship journal from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), published by Wiley-Blackwell. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. Global CR Opportunity Study
The global consumer movement surfaces in the 2011 Cone/Echo Global CR Opportunity Study, a 10-country survey released today by Cone Communications and Echo Research. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Reviewing the Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility: New Evidence and Analysis
The study complements previous empirical research on the business case for corporate social responsibility (CSR) by employing hitherto unused data on corporate social performance (CSP) and proposing statistical analyses to account for bi-directional causality between social and financial performance. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
4. CSO Back Story: How Chief Sustainability Officers Reached the C-Suite
Weinreb’s report CSO Back Story is the first to chart the evolution of the position by surveying every exec with that title among the country’s publicly traded companies. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
5. Towards Integrated Reporting – Communicating Value in 21st Century
A discussion paper Towards Integrated Reporting – Communicating Value in the 21st Century was released by the International Integrated Reporting Committee. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
6. Redefining the Future of Growth: The New Sustainability Champions
The report titled Redefining the Future of Growth: The New Sustainability Champions analyzed companies on the basis of criteria that gauge sustainability, innovation, and scalability. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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1. Women in Corporate Leadership
A 2011 national study led by the Lipscomb University College of Business examines the presence of women in corporate leadership. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. Through Thick and Thin: How Fair Trade Consumers Have Reacted to the Global Economic Recession
The study examines the effects of recessionary economic conditions on fair trade consumers’ purchasing behaviour. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Building Sustainable Communities through Multi-Party Collaboration
The ICCR’s published Social Sustainability Resource Guide (SSRG) functions as a framework, learning tool and guide for integrating social sustainability into business operations and implementing social sustainable initiatives. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
4. Applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the ICT Industry
This briefing paper was written to provide insight for information and communications technology (ICT) companies on how to apply the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
5. How Leadership and Commitment Influence Bank Employees’ Adoption of their Bank’s Values
The article explores how values are adopted by employees within a bank, specifically, the authors test the relationship between leadership style, employee commitment, and the adoption of values. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
6. HERproject: Health Enables Returns
The study seeks to provide a clear business case for investments in women’s health for international companies and their supplier partners. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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1. The Voluntary Environmentalists: Green Clubs, ISO 14001, and Voluntary Environmental Regulations (Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski)
In this book, Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski argue that so-called “green clubs” like ISO 14001 have the potential to overcome problems of collective action. According to the authors, to be successful, green clubs must impose a non-trivial membership cost as well as provide a non-trivial excludable benefit. The book takes Olson’s original dilemma and applies it to current environmental challenges. Review by Matthew Maguire. Read the full review in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage (Chris Laszlo and Nadya Zhexembayeva)
Embedded Sustainability is a must-read for all business practitioners. It effectively presents the case for the shift in mindset needed to move sustainability from a fringe activity to embedding it into a company’s DNA. The book draws on case studies and management strategy to deliver a practical and pragmatic handbook to action. Review by Jennifer Roynon. Read the full review in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Global Action Networks: Creating our Future Together (Steve Waddell)
In his foreword, the author says that he hopes that Global Action Networks will work for everyone – academics, students, business people or anyone else involved in multi-stakeholder partnerships. Over nine content-laden chapters, Steve Waddell tackles issues such as the very structure of networks, the stages of development, understanding change, the core competencies needed for success and more. Review by Nazareth Seferian. Read the full review in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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1. Ethics in Decision-making
The new report from the Institute of Business Ethics draws on the experience of UK and international companies, as well as psychological and behavioural research, to provide practical assistance on how to encourage and embed ethical values and commitments across all decision-making. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. The Structure in Trust in China and the US
The article investigates the structure of trust in China and compares it with the U.S., using the 2000 and 2005 waves of the World Value Survey (WVS). Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Strategic Response to Perceived Corruption in an Emerging Market: Lessons from MNEs in China
This study addresses how MNE subunits strategically respond to perceived corruption in the business segment of a foreign emerging market wherein they invest and operate. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
4. The Business Case of Being a Responsible Business
The report offers up-to-date data on the business benefits of today, and predictions for what the benefits will be tomorrow. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
5. Empirical Examination on Contextual Influences on Follower Perceptions and Reactions to Aversive Leadership
The study sought to determine the effects of an organization’s climate and financial performance, as well as the leader’s gender, on subordinate perceptions of and reactions (i.e., whistle-blowing intentions) to aversive leadership, a form of destructive leadership based on coercive power. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
6. Sustainability Leadership Report: Measuring Perception vs. Reality
The report summarizes a study that compared perceived and actual reported corporate perfor¬mance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors for 100 leading companies across most industries. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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1. Help Wanted: Hiring, Human Trafficking and Slavery in the Global Economy
Verite released a major report from a year-long investigation on migrant workers. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. Deloitte Volunteer IMPACT Survey
Deloitte’s eight Volunteer IMPACT survey offers new insights into volunteerism and its links to employee engagement and perceptions of positive organizational culture. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Companies Fail to Educate Consumers on Energy Management Systems
A survey by Consumer Electronics Association sought to better understand consumer awareness and attitudes regarding energy management and how energy efficiency gains in consumer electronics products have changed purchasing habits. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
4. Sexual Predators and Serial Rapists at Wal-Mart Supplier in Jordan
Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights has released a very disturbing report on sexual abuse and repeated rapes. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
5. Child Labour Index 2011
The Child Labour Index highlights child labour risks for business throughout all regions of the world and all stages of operation, supply and distribution. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
6. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
The United Nations Human Rights Council has endorsed a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights designed to provide a global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to business activity. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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1. American Climate Attitudes
The new report from our Social Capital Project describes the trends in American’s attitudes about climate change along with recommendations for how to account for those trends in when communicating with the public. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. Deloitte reSources 2011
Deloitte, with the assistance of strategy and market research firm the Harrison Group, has conducted the reSources 2011 Study. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Back to the Future: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2011
For five years, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have published the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Reports. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
4. State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2011
The World Bank has released its annual report State and Trends of the Carbon Market. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
5. Recycling Rates of Metals: A Status Report
UNEP has released a new study titled Recycling Rates of Metals: A Status Report. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
6. New Business Decision Tools – Making Aids in Era of Complexity, Scrutiny, and Uncertainty
BSR conducted the first side-by-side comparison of seven ecosystem services tools that is highlighted in the report New Business Decision-Making Aids in an Era of Complexity, Scrutiny, and Uncertainty. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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State and Trends of the Carbon Market 2011
1. UNGC-Accenture Industry CEO Study
A new research study published by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture shows major differences in perceptions of sustainability between CEOs in different industry sectors. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. 2013 Will Be Sustainability ‘Tipping Point’
The Verdantix analysis of the sustainable business tipping point is based on 4 years of research on sustainable business market trends and the proprietary Critical Moments market size and forecast models. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Companies Report Increased Philanthropic Giving in 2010
CECP releases first look at changes from pre-economic crisis levels in philanthropic giving. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
4. Sustainability Benefits Exceed Expectations for a Majority of Businesses
Accenture undertook a survey in advance of Sustainability 24 aiming to demonstrate best practice in sustainability. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
5. Moving Beyond Boundaries: The Rise of International Giving
Using multiple sources across the giving industry, the report highlights today’s trends in international philanthropy. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
6. Promise and Progress: Market-Based Solutions to Poverty in Africa
The Monitor Group has published a comprehensive analysis of financially sustainable enterprises that address challenges of poverty in Africa. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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1. When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century (Fred Pearce)
Here is a book that is grounded in extensive research across the world. Yet, it has been written in a language that is accessible to the common man. Fred Pearce writes about a critical subject that will define progress and quality of life across the world in the coming decades – the decline of fresh water available for use. Review by Kiran Pereira. Read the full review in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World (Bruce Philp)
As corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues become more mainstream, many corporations are implementing programs to address their environmental, social, and economic impact. However, in Consumer Republic, Bruce Philp looks to the consumer to drive the change and accountability needed to ensure a more sustainable future for people and the planet. Review by Jennifer Roynon. Read the full review in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Consumptionomics: Asia’s Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet (Chandran Nair)
You may have heard about the growing global population and the implications that that may have for the sustainability of our planet. Consumptionomics brings all the numbers and facts together to the reader and presents a comprehensive review of where the world currently stands and what fate possibly awaits it if the growing Asian nations adopt a ‘Western’ way of life. Review by Nazareth Seferian. Read the full review in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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1. Corporate Ethics Policies & Programmes
The IBE surveys UK companies every three years on the use of their codes of ethics. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
2. Shareholders Press Boards on Social, Environmental Risks
Ernst & Young issued lately a report titled Shareholders Press Boards on Social, Environmental Risks. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
3. Global Corruption Report: Climate Change
The Global Corruption Report is the first comprehensive publication of its kind to explore the corruption risks related to tackling climate change. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
4. Managers’ Moral Decision-Making Patterns over Time: A Multidimensional Approach
Taking multidimensional ethics scale approach, the article describes an empirical survey of top managers’ moral decision-making patterns and their change from 1994 to 2004 during morally problematic situations in the Finnish context. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
5. 2011 World’s Most Ethical Companies
The Ethisphere Institute announced its fifth annual selection of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
6. Corporate Governance, Commitment to Business Ethics, and Firm Valuation: Evidence from the Korean Stock Market
The study examines variety of stakeholders that have long been interested in the factors which are related to firm valuation. Read the report summary in the Digest (see download/purchase links below) …
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