Ethical Corporation, the leading global business intelligence provider, has released details of the stories covered in the November 2011 edition of Ethical Corporation print magazine.
London 26/10/10
Next month’s 10-page country briefing will focus on the big corporate responsibility issues in Malaysia, analysing the main business challenges. It will start by outlining the history of CR in Malaysia and how it has developed combining Islamic values of philanthropy and ethics with business sustainability. It then analyses the key sustainable business issues with case studies of 3 leading local companies.
The briefing will consider the role of NGOs and civil society and which voluntary initiatives are most relevant. Finally, the briefing will examine the Malaysian government’s influence on sustainable business, how this affects corporate responsibility and whether companies or government are more progressive.
The cover story will review WWF as they celebrate their 50th birthday. First it takes a close look at WWF and the challenges for the big international campaigning NGOs when engaging with business. It then asks what is the right balance between NGO activism and NGO engagement, between campaigning and raising money. The story will ask whether WWF needs to refocus, and if it has lost sight of some of its founding principles.
The EthicsWatch section takes a close look at the new European rules on non-financial disclosure, and asks why the EU is favouring mandatory non-financial disclosure, and reviews the likely implications for companies.
Next it delves into the upcoming December UN climate summit in Durban. There is a review of the conflicting post-Kyoto options and what the likely outcomes of the summit look like, in the particular the best and worst case scenarios.
The third section of EthicsWatch will review Forum for the Future’s new Consumer Futures report, which outlines a number of future scenarios for how consumers and companies will interact in the future. Finally there will be analysis of Australia’s new carbon tax and the effect it will have on companies.
November’s special briefing will be on sustainable tourism. Firstly the briefing considers in-depth how international organisations and NGOs are promoting sustainable tourism as a lucrative key to alleviate poverty, aid developing countries’ economies and meet some of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.
The briefing then outlines the role of certification in making sustainable tourism an international success.
This month’s Strategy and Management section outlines some top tips for presenting the sustainable business case to suppliers and in turn creating a sustainable supply chain. The feature piece outlines the best KPIs, how should they be monitored, how and when to cooperate with competitors. Throughout the feature there will be examples of best practice from companies that are already succeeding in this task.
November’s essay is an exclusive extract from Prof CB Bhattacharya’s new book “Leveraging Corporate Responsibility”. Prof Battacharya explains how companies can work with their stakeholders to develop corporate responsibility programmes that benefit all.
As always there’ll be the usual Academic news, Book reviews and contributions from the regular columnists; Mallen Baker, Paul French, Jon Entine, Brendan May and Peter Knight. And in a guest opinion piece, finance expert Rory Sullivan will analyse the current state of sustainable finance, asking what investors look for and why.
And if all that wasn’t enough there will be a review of the recent sustainability reports from Air France/KLM and John Lewis.
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