Archive for 'Good Governance'
The Failure of Good Governance: How it led to the Financial Crisis
Posted on 31. Dec, 2008 by Jia En Teo.
The concept of good governance has typically been used in development economics as a way to describe the system of aid-recipient countries – developing economies. The recent economic crisis has brought this concept into light in developed economies where governance, both public and private, has been assumed to be sound. Euphemistically put, the unfolding of [...]
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Corporate Responsibility in the Age of Irresponsibility:
Posted on 31. Dec, 2008 by Flavia Thome.
a symbiotic relationship between csr and the financial crisis? Trying to understand the future impact of the financial turmoil of the last few months on the many institutions and actors on the global stage, is a daunting yet fascinating process. The analysis forces us to take a step back and view whatever it is that we [...]
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Pak-Governance: Parallel Tracks
Posted on 31. Dec, 2008 by Ahsan Ali Mangi.
The term “good governance” has increasingly been used to describe the regulatory interventionist regime necessary to support free markets in order to reduce, minimize and dampen suboptimal market outcomes due to constraints present in the real world. The concept was also adopted by development literature whereby it was argued that better institutions (that is, better [...]
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Victims and Winners: CSR and the Financial Crisis
Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by Wayne Visser.
Is the crisis the result of irresponsible banking, financial markets, corporations, executives or capitalism itself? And how will the impact vary, depending on whether CSR is philanthropic, strategic, embedded or revolutionary? This article examines the scale of the financial crisis, the links to CSR and the likely impact on CSR. The Scale of The Crisis There is [...]
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CSR now needed more than ever before
Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by Michael Hopkins.
Turbulent times: Financial storms in the US and UK will have implications for all of us. Main Street and Wall Street cannot be separated. If the captains of those financial companies, now in crisis or bankrupted, had acted more responsibly with a proper Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy, then their vessels would not have sunk [...]
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The Internet : True Government of The People
Posted on 15. Dec, 2008 by Ramla Akhtar.
One day in June 2006 I had a sudden realization: I am beyond borders and regulations on the Internet. Certainly, the regulations and norms of the “real world” no longer applied to the virtual interactions of hundreds of millions of people. From chatting to creating social networking communities like Orkut and Facebook; from writing emails to [...]
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Global Briefs Nov-Dec 2008
Posted on 25. Nov, 2008 by Rutaba Ahmed.
Barometer Launched to Measure CSR Disclosure The recently launched ‘CSR Asia Business Barometer 2008′ by CSR Asia, compares the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure of the 20 largest listed companies in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. More companies are seeing the value of making commitments to responsible business practices and disclosing their practices. Some of the findings [...]
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