Archive for 'Evolution of CSR'
Evolution of CSR Around The Globe: Any Lessons for Pakistan?
Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by Michael Hopkins.
CSR has been around for some time although the social responsibility of business was not widely considered to be a significant problem from Adam Smith’s time to the Great Depression. But since the 1930s, and increasingly since the 1960s, social responsibility has become ‘an important issue not only for business but in the theory and [...]
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The Auto Industry: Challenges and Solutions
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by Babar Javed.
The recession has hit the automotive industry hard worldwide. In times of cut throat competition and advances in technology every single day, automotive manufacturers are valiantly struggling to either maintain or gain more market share, thereby increasing their profitability. There are various areas which require innovation. Supply chain collaboration has regained its importance and methods [...]
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Pricing: for Profit or for Fairness?
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by Ahsan Ali Mangi.
Ensuring availability, accessibility and affordability of food to the population remains one of the foremost roles of the state (government). This process entails a detailed public policy framework comprising of agricultural policies underscoring sustainability as well as enhancements in productivity, factor and product pricing and ensuring food availability through functioning markets. In developing countries with [...]
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Crisis: Sugar, Wheat, Rice…
Posted on 28. Nov, 2009 by Miriam Katz.
Food Insecurity in Pakistan In the last two years, many issues have arisen that threaten Pakistan’s ability to feed itself. Food insecurity exists in part because there have been continuing wheat and sugar crises. The situation also looks set to worsen with the government proposal to lease land to other countries. As companies become increasingly [...]
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8 Reasons Why This Recession Isn’t All That Bad
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Sohaib Jamali.
One of the most resounding slogans heard during the last two years is ‘change’ but the idea of change and its importance as a process is not something novel. Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher said that no man ever steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not [...]
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Khuda Ki Basti-3: Solid Waste Composting Initiative
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Ambreen Rahman.
Khuda Ki Basti-3 (KKB-3), located in Qaiser Town, near Surjani Town in northern Karachi, is an innovative housing settlement pioneered by the NGO Saiban, as a model project to provide low-cost affordable legal housing to low-income residents of slums (kachi abadis) in Karachi. Previously building on the two other settlements in Hyderabad and Gharo, the [...]
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Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility 2009
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Zohare Ali Shariff.
This is Part 1 of a 2-Part write-up on AFCSR 2009, reviewing the CSR conference itself. Part 2, to appear in the January-February 2010 issue of tbl will look at CSR Awards in general and with reference to the Asian CSR Awards 2009, presented at the end of AFCSR 2009. Manila can hold its own [...]
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PSR
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Praetor.
What do the C’s do when they retire? The CEOs, COOs, CTOs, CIOs, CFOs, CSOs, CMOs and their other brethren missed out here. If the C is worth his or her salt, approaching retirement the C will already have done fairly well for himself or herself. Kids put through the best universities, even married off [...]
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Consulting for Business Sustainability
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Sadaf Azhar.
With ‘green economy’, ‘sustainability’ and ‘responsible business’ becoming the new buzzwords, there is a greater need for academic research and publication to aid consultants and business students. The compilation entitled ‘Consulting for Business Sustainability’ edited by Chris Galena is such a book that aims to provide consultants with an understanding of current trends and relevant [...]
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On The Lighter Side
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Admin TBL.
Stylish and Sustainable Eco-friendly Boots Recycling is important, but should be the final step in the let’s- o-green process. Simple, it seems, knows that. They make the soles of their shoes out of recycled inner tubes, they use recycled carpet padding, 100 percent post consumer recycled paper, and recycled PET plastic (which is “a fancy-pants [...]
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CSR and The State of Our Nation
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Zahra Baray.
All this talk of CSR. But as a citizen, stepping back and looking at the state of our beloved nation, one wonders how CSR can be relevant to people whose daily lives are riddled with bombings, muggings, conspiracy theories and a whole array of similarly unpalatable pickings. Indeed, we at tbl glimpse rays of hope [...]
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What’s Happening?
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Rutaba Ahmed.
Child Rights National Conference and Reel View Festival Street children in Pakistan number approximately 70,000 and almost 50 percent of the children drop out of school because of rampant corporal punishment, poverty, financial constraints and abuse. A child as young as seven can be tried for committing a crime (the lowest age for criminal responsibility [...]
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