Author Archive:
Delwin A Roy
Perspectives on the New Economy of Corporate Citizenship by Simon Zadek, Niels Hojensgard and Peter Raynard (eds)
What impact is the New (and Global) Economy having on the definition and practice of corporate citizenship? The editors of this work choose to construe the possible and probable impact on a for ‘good’ or …
NGOs Engaging with Business – Simon Heap
Part report and part analytical text, NGOs Engaging with Business is perhaps the most scholarly of the relatively new genre of works addressing the need for non-profits and transnational corporations to find ways to cooperate …
Human Rights – is it any of your business? by Amnesty International/Prince of Wales Business Leaders ForumHuman Rights
This work is billed as a ‘primer’ on human rights for companies. It categorizes the human rights problems that most businesses face around the world, and sets forth policy options that will help protect a …
Accommodating the corporate perspective
In the past few years, it has become fashionable to try to interest corporations in cooperating with other sectors. To some extent, the corporate sector has come forward in trying to initiate joint efforts, but …
Can companies afford to be without an exit strategy?
Corporations have for some time shown a stronger inclination to link their corporate community involvement (CCI) actions to defined strategic business interests. Central to this definition of business interest will be a projection of the …
Who will take the corporate bull by the horns?
In a speech given at the University of California in September 1998, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, Alan Greenspan, commented, ‘Something must be done to protect the poorer nations from the instability in …
Philanthropy’s Voice in Public Policy?
The notion of the failing capacity of government alone to provide all the goods and services wanted and needed by the public has been with us since the early 1980s. It has never been contended …
