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Corporate Responsibility Summaries

Profit is not everything. Businesses that value ethically correct behavior are more successful in the long term. Assume corporate responsibility to benefit your company.

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Green to Gold
 

Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston

Yale UP, 2006

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The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide
 

Tom Devine and Tarek F. Maassarani

Berrett-Koehler, 2011

(9)

Earth, Inc.
 

Gregory Unruh

Harvard Business Review Press, 2010

(9)

Creating a World Without Poverty
 

Muhammad Yunus

Public Affairs, 2008

(9)

The Triple Bottom Line
 

Andrew W. Savitz and Karl Weber

Jossey-Bass, 2006

(9)

Corporate Social Responsibility
 

Philip Kotler and Nancy Lee

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004

(9)

Banker to the Poor
 

Muhammad Yunus

Public Affairs, 2003

(9)

Cause Marketing
 

Joe Marconi

Dearborn, 2002

(9)

The Instant Survivor
 

Jim Moorhead

Greenleaf Book Group, 2012

(8)

Enough
 

Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman

Public Affairs, 2010

(8)

Getting Green Done
 

Auden Schendler

Public Affairs, 2010

(8)

Factor Five
 

Ernst von Weizsäcker et al.

Earthscan, 2010

(8)

Small Change
 

Michael Edwards

Berrett-Koehler, 2010

(8)

Green Recovery
 

Andrew S. Winston

Harvard Business Review Press, 2009

(8)

Green Tech
 

Lawrence Webber and Michael Wallace

AMACOM, 2009

(8)

Money Well Spent
 

Paul Brest and Hal Harvey

Bloomberg Press, 2008

(8)

The Power of Unreasonable People
 

John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan

Harvard Business Review Press, 2008

(8)

Values-Driven Business
 

Ben Cohen and Mal Warwick

Berrett-Koehler, 2006

(8)

Investing in Corporate Social Responsibility
 

John Hancock

Kogan Page, 2005

(8)

99 to 1
 

Chuck Collins

Berrett-Koehler, 2012

(7)

The New Rules of Green Marketing
 

Jacquelyn Ottman

Berrett-Koehler, 2011

(7)

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Corporate Responsibility

For many years, corporate social responsibility was a secondary consideration as companies formulated their business strategies. While there were exceptions, most companies existed to turn a profit and paid minimal attention to their impact on society. Though government attempted to regulate corporate behavior and safeguard the public interest, organizations typically did not have to exercise social and financial responsibility. These days, however, companies have to behave ethically and within the law.

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In the wake of several significant corporate scandals over the last decade or so, companies have come under greater public scrutiny. Shareholders and consumers demand more accountability and have little tolerance for those who breach ethical boundaries. An increased awareness of environmental issues has in many cases motivated companies to be more ecologically conscious and sensitive to their impact on the environment.

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