Corporate citizenship

Increasingly, excellent companies are expected to perform socially as well as economically. The CEOs of leading companies understand this as their responses to a recent World Economic Forum CEO survey on Global Corporate Citizenship indicate ... 

From Responding to the Leadership Challenge Findings of a CEO Survey on Global Corporate Citizenship, conducted by the World Economic Forum in partnership with the Prince of Wales Business Leadership Forum, January 2002.)... 

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (BCCC)... 

Social responsibility is used here as a general term to encompass the community relations information that appears under different labels on the companies websites (corporate citizenship, charitable work, community service, etc.). 

United Nations (UN) Global Compact (UN, 1999) is a voluntary corporate citizenship compact covering nine principles in the areas of human rights, labor, and the environment. It includes specific practices for endorsing organizations to enact in both internal corporate practices and complementary external public policy initiatives. 

S. Waddock and C. Bodwell, From TQM to TRM Emerging Total Responsibility Management Approaches, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Summer 2002. 

The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College (BCCCC) issues an annual Community Involvement Index. It provides a series of annual snapshots of issues and trends based on surveys of leading U.S. corporations regarding their contribution allocations, management support, budgets, and staffing for community involvement programs. 

The Caux Round Table, an international network of business leaders, developed Principles for Business in 1994 to advance a world standard in corporate citizenship against which business behavior can be measured. 

Special Features Corporate citizenship, rooted in two basic ethical ideals kyosei (living together) and human dignity. The Caux standard encompasses CSR practices comprehensively. 

Special Features Human rights, labor, and environment. UN Global Compact is a voluntary corporate citizenship program endorsed by more than 1100 corporations worldwide it is the largest CSR initiative in the world. 

As a demonstration of good corporate citizenship, members recognise their responsibility to support worthwhile activities both within and outside their communities ... 

Exxon http //www.exxonmobil.coni/Corporate/Citizenship/gcr education main. 

Corporate responsibility has various definitions. However, broadly speaking it covers the ways in which organizations manage their core business to add social, environmental and economic value in order to produce a positive, sustainable impact on both society and the business itself. Terms such as corporate social responsibility , socially responsible business , and corporate citizenship all refer to this concept. 

Tom Cecich lists 35 issues and opportunities in the universe of sustainability. They span ethical behavior, corporate citizenship (aka social responsibility), executive compensation policies, standards and codes of conduct, product safety, product... 

ExxonMobil Corporate Citizenship Report 2006. Viewed at www.exxonmobil.co.uk. 

Crane, A., Matten, D. (2007). Business ethics Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age cf globalization (2nd ed.). Oxford Oxford University Press. 

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