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Six recently launched conferences on corporate responsibility to add to your diary.

1) The Global Reporting Summit 
- Celebrating best practice and assessing the landscape of CR reporting around the globe.
- 3–4 March, Berlin. www.ethicalcorp.com/globalreporting

2) Global Anti-corruption, Compliance and Ethics USA 2008
- How to effectively develop and manage your corporate compliance and ethics programs
- 14-15 April, Chicago. www.ethicalcorp.com/globalethics

3) The Responsible Business Summit 2008
- Europe’s largest corporate responsibility conference returns for a 7th year
- 13-14 May, London. www.ethicalcorp.com/rbs/?=diary

4) The Sustainable Finance Summit
- Understand your market, assess your risks, and go for the right opportunities
23 – 24 June, Brussels. www.ethicalcorp.com/finance

5) The Green Supply Chain Summit
- Taking you from step one to step ten to achieve a green supply chain
24 – 25 June, London. www.ethicalcorp.com/supplychain   

6) The CSR Partnerships Conference
B2B, BizNGO, MSIs – How to build partnerships that work
26 – 27 June, Amsterdam. www.ethicalcorp.com/partnerships

Also just launched is a business intelligence report on how the Global FT500 are calculating and verifying their greenhouse gas emissions. For more, go to www.ethicalcorp.com/eci/reports/ghgreporting.  

 

Some useful websites to assist  your research in areas of business ethics and CSR.

 

• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/ethics/

 Recent Stories on Corporate Ethics.

• http://www.csrcenter.net/index.php

        CSR Centre- Great website for resources and for students

• http://www.ethics.org/

Ethics Resources Center

• http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/scandals

Financial scandals website with details of the biggest to the smallest Financial Scandals 

• http://www.ethicsweb.ca/resources/business/topics.html

General Resources on Business Ethics.

• http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business

Markkula Center of Applied Ethics. Discussion of Ethical issues in Business.

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/ethicalbusiness

Guardian Ethical Business Reports.

• http://www.business-ethics.com

Business Ethics Online, The main Magazine for Corporate Responsibility

• http://www.ethix.org

Institute of Business, Ethics and Technology.

• http://www.credit360.com/credit/site/home.acds?context=632249&instanceid=632250 

   Measuring Corporate Responsibility Data and Organizing it into a useful form.

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/ethicalbusiness/story/0,14713,1463193,00.html

Is CSR Catching on?

• http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business

            /conference/presentations/business-ethics-history.html

History of Business Ethics

• http://www.eldis.org/csr

Website on issues concerning CSR.

• http://www.csreurope.org

CSR Europe is the main website that provides information on events concerning CSR in Europe.

 Interesting article on Business and NGO partnership.

• http://www2.marksandspencer.com/thecompany/ourcommitmenttosociety/index.shtml

                Marks and Spencer CSR website.

• http://www.article13.com/static/A13_m1_i0_aboutus.asp

An example of a company specializing in CSR consultancy work.

• http://www.bitc.org.uk/index.html

Website of Business in the Community initiative in the UK. An organization of about 700 companies.

• http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=3555212

Interesting article from the Economist about a criticism of CSR.

• http://www.economist.com/business/globalexecutive/reading/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2369912

Another Interesting article from the Economist about a criticism of CSR.

• http://www.hsbc.com/hsbc/csr;brochid=0HXPG5XDTE151QFIYNLCGWQ

HSBC’s approach to CSR detailed on their CSR website.

• http://www.csr.gov.uk

The UK. Government gateway to CSR.

• http://www.blf.cz

Business Leaders Forum In Czech Republic

• http://www.blf.cz/csr/prezentace/index.php

• Presentations given by the Business Leaders Forum in a CSR conference held in  Prague in 2004.

• http://www.bsr.org/CSRResources/index.cfm

Business for Social responsibility website.

• http://www.oecd.org/topic/0,2686,en_2649_33765_1_1_1_1_37439,00.html

              Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation (OEDC) CSR website.