From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Sustainability
Subtitle: Moving the Agenda Forward in Asia and the Pacific
By: ESCAP
Series: ESCAP Studies in Trade and Investment -- no. 77; ESCAP studies in trade and investment -- no. 77.
Publisher: United Nations; United Nations Environment Programme
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9789210564779; 9789211206715
Subjects: Economic and Social Development
Description: This publication looks at recent developments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) with particular attention to the growing role of impact investment and the need for greater convergence of global CSR instruments and provides recommendations to policymakers to enhance the adoption of CSR as an integral part of business strategy and operations. Increasingly, companies are adopting sustainable business practices as an integral element of their corporate strategies, going beyond the traditional interpretation of CSR and engage in social or impact investment and/or play active roles in development cooperation, including the provision of disaster relief and humanitarian assistance. Various global CSR instruments and sustainability frameworks, such as the Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative and ISO 26000, have been in existence for some time and have been increasingly adopted by many companies, usually the bigger transnational corporations (TNCs).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations and acronyms; title: Introduction: Setting the stage; title: Developments in the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR); title: Unlocking the power of impact investing in Asia and the Pacific; title: Convergence and coherence in international CSR instruments: Implications for business in the Asian and Pacific Region; title: Timeline of development of global CSR instruments; title: Overview of key international CSR instruments.