Tima Bansal, Mark DesJardine

The common approach to corporate social responsibility is grounded in ethics, morality and norms. And there is no question that many CSR initiatives are good at balancing competing demands made by shareholders and other stakeholders. To do this, however, many supposedly responsible firms borrow resources and capital from the future, which can magnify the imbalance in the distribution of resources between the short and long … [ Read more ]

Beyond Good Intentions: Strategies for Managing Your CSR Performance

Knowing which assessment criteria are being applied to grade your firm’s CSR performance will help it achieve a higher rating. As well, knowing which firms your company is being compared against will help it achieve a higher ranking. These authors describe how to translate good intentions into real results and improve your firm’s CSR performance.

The Top Ten Reasons Why Businesses Aren’t More Sustainable

“It doesn’t fit the business case,” or “How are we supposed to measure the impact?” are just two of the most common excuses corporations offer for not drawing up and implementing sustainability initiatives in all aspects of their operations. These authors met with some of the leading practitioners of sustainability and identified how organizations can stop making excuses and start building sustainability into everything from … [ Read more ]

Best practices in Corporate Social Responsibility

Incorporating corporate social responsibility into all strategic decisions is, arguably, one of the most difficult challenges a manager faces. Professor Tima Bansal discusses a research project that investigated how Canadian businesses manage that challenge.

Ivey On…Best practices in Corporate Social Responsibility

Incorporating corporate social responsibility into all strategic decisions is, arguably, one of the most difficult challenges a manager faces. Professor Tima Bansal discusses a research project that investigated how Canadian businesses manage that challenge.