A business view on the J’Burg summit

May 04, 2004 There may have been a lack of substantive outcomes, but J'Burg has helped clarify the Rio+20 agenda for business Read more >

Partnerships and community development

May 01, 2004 Rory Sullivan & Michael Warner set out how partnerships, under the right conditions, represent an important and viable alternative to traditional corporate approaches to community development. Briefing readers qualify for a 10% discount - visit www.greenleaf-publishing.com/catalogue/partners.htm Read more >

Arts: the art of business sponsorship

May 01, 2004 Despite economic difficulties in some sectors, corporate arts sponsorship was up last year. Arts & Business is making a play to get individuals to give more. Read more >

Movers & Shakers: Gib Bulloch, Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP)

May 01, 2004 Part business consultant, part aid and development worker, Gib Bulloch has created an unusual CV for himself - and an even more unusual development model in the process. Read more >

Comment: suppliers: a growing risk aversion?

May 01, 2004 While impressive steps are being made down the road of compliance, future debate about responsible supply chain management must begin to centre on good relationships, not risk. Read more >

Suppliers: a growing risk aversion?

May 01, 2004 While impressive steps are being made down the road of compliance, future debate about responsible supply chain management must begin to centre on good relationships, not risk. Read more >

Uncovered: the government’s health and safety strategy

May 01, 2004 The government's new workplace health and safety strategy is strangely familiar: set out the business case, provide best practice case studies, and benchmark to judge performance. CSR managers should feel right at home, Michelle Dow argues. Read more >

Employment: up the workers!

May 01, 2004 As the tide of individual CSR measures in the workplace grows by the day, are the voices of employees in danger of being drowned out? Read more >

Disability: the rights stuff

May 01, 2004 Moves to merge existing equal opportunity commissions may dilute a strong focus on disability. But companies and some campaigners support the plan, which raises questions also about what human rights really mean in the corporate context. Read more >

Shell scandal raises reservations about CSR

May 01, 2004 The Anglo-Dutch oil major has been at the forefront of the corporate social responsibility and sustainable development debate since the movement’s explosion in the late 1990s. Ellen West asks what Shell’s reserves crisis tells us about CSR’s poster child and – more importantly – what it reveals about the CSR movement itself Read more >