Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Our little mushroom clouds

Toxic waste is a problem. Whose? RE 0.70 buys one of the cheapest paracetamol pills in the Indian market. An essential drug, it needs to be kept inexpensive. Manufacturing such drugs has a much bigger cost that is never factored into the pricing: pharma factories release large quantities of slurry, often hazardous. This is dumped in places where people either do not know the effects of

Publication Date:

27/02/2009

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Industrial Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Waste Management, Industry, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), India

Health

Rs 1-cr OIL aid for cancer institute

DULIAJAN, Feb 10

Publication Date:

11/02/2009

Source: Assam Tribune (Guwahati)

Tags:

Cancer, Health, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Assam, Oil India

Climate Change

Climate study by Pachauri

The Energy and Resources Institute will soon conduct a detailed climate study in West Bengal, R.K. Pachauri, the institute

Publication Date:

16/12/2008

Source: Telegraph (Kolkata)

Tags:

Sundarbans, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), TERI, West Bengal

Health

Tata bags excellence award - AIDs campaign earn recognition from CII-ITC

After TERI Award for HIV/AIDS initiatives this year, Tata Steel has now bagged CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2008 for its corporate social responsibility efforts.

Competing with many business organisations, the company bagged the award after a two-part assessment process involving a site visit followed by jury investigation.

Publication Date:

15/12/2008

Source: Telegraph (Ranchi)

Tags:

Tata Iron and Steel (TISCO), AIDS, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Awards, Jamshedpur

Climate Change

Corporate governance and climate change: consumer and technology companies

This Ceres report is the first comprehensive assessment of how 63 of the world

Publication Date:

01/12/2008

Author(s): & et al, Doug Cogan, Megan Good, Geri Kantor

Source: Inc.

Tags:

Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation, Energy Efficiency, Climate Adaptation, Industry, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Governance, Global

Industry

Does it pay to be different? An analysis of the relationship between corporate social and financial performance

This study explores the relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) within the context of a specific component of CSP: corporate charitable giving. A model of the determinants of the extent of corporate charitable giving is estimated and used as the basis of a classification that groups firms according to the difference between their actual and their predicted intensity of gift giving. The financial performance attributes of the classification are explored.

Publication Date:

01/12/2008

Author(s): Stephen Brammer, Andrew Millington

Source: Strategic Management Journal

Vol:

29

Issue:

12

pp:

1325–1343

Tags:

Industry, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), United Kingdom (UK), Finance

Environment

Businesses join the green coalition of the willing

SAN FRANCISCO: Green is no longer just for hippies. Over the past couple of years, mainstream companies have started to realize that they need to fundamentally rethink their environmental policies, and while some still see the issues in terms of compliance, risk management or marketing, others see business opportunity.

Publication Date:

14/10/2008

Author(s): Erica Gies

Source: International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)

Tags:

Emission Targets, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), United States Of America (US), Environment Management

Industry

Reaching out

Societies have always searched for an ideology and an institutional framework to balance collective and private interests. In the last century, this struggle played out as a confrontation between two clearly defined ideologies

Publication Date:

06/10/2008

Author(s): C.K. Prahalad

Source: India Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Education, India, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

Governance And Institutions

Call for inclusive development at Times workshop

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Representatives from corporate houses, NGOs and government discussed the role of private companies in supplementing societal good through effective synergy and partnership at a public policy forum on corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, organised by Times Foundation at Indian Society of International Law on Monday.

Publication Date:

23/09/2008

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Governance And Institutions, NGO, India

Energy