Sustainability has moved from being the ‘right thing to do’ to being the optimal driver of business strategy. The context for economic performance has changed radically. As many individual leaders and companies grapple with adhering to old strategies versus using complexity to innovate, the long standing dance between environment and economy erupts. Standing solidly in [...]
If you had suffered the ordeal of being stranded in flood hit Swat last summer, you are unlikely to choose it as your vacation destination in the future. We keep adapting our behaviour to changes in our environment, based on our past experiences. Climatic change, the result of rapid technological innovations and industrial growth, is [...]
A country by country Analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Published by Greenleaf Publishing , 2010, ISBN 978-1-906093-38-9 The World Guide to CSR is the first book to provide comparable national profiles that describe the evolution and practice of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR) for 58 countries and 5 global regions. Each regional and national [...]
Unless you’re a leftist, you’ve probably been brought up to believe that a free market economy, mode rately regulated, is the answer to all our economic woes. Materialism is stated to be the foremost human motivator and so ‘greed’ in business is an acceptable way of making people part with their money for goods and [...]
