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Tania Ellis: Social responsibility – not just a Western phenomenon

Tania Ellis — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:33:02 +0000

Focus on CSR is far from just a Western welfare phenomenon, and luckily there are plenty of opportunities to exchange experiences and gain an overview of the many different practises across countries and cultures. One fast lane to new insights is the book The World Guide to CSR. It features descriptions of national CSR practices by [...]

Tania Ellis: A World of Sustainable Ideas

Tania Ellis — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:42:40 +0000

CSI can strengthen your business. Web 2.0 technologies are creating new opportunities for collaboration and development. Collaborative co-creation is a crucial cornerstone. A few months ago I launched my international book “The New Pioneers – Sustainable business success through social innovation and social entrepreneurship”. My book describes the new economic world order impacted by new competition parameters, [...]

Søren Isaksen: When CSR became tangible, we got a common global language

Søren Isaksen — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:40:17 +0000

If you do not weigh and measure your CSR work, you underestimate the value of decent behaviour – both in terms of the bottom line and your reputation. Integrity has been a basic principle in NKT business operations for three centuries. So is there anything new about all this talk of corporate social responsibility? The answer is [...]

Carsten Ingerslev: A new compass is born

Carsten Ingerslev — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:57:32 +0000

Yet another compass is added to the series of web based tools with the purpose to make it easier for Danish companies to work with CSR and at the same time benefit the business. The Ideas Compass is the third in a row of compasses by The Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, and it is the [...]

Mads Kjær: Corporate social responsibility 2.0

Mads Kjær — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:49:35 +0000

Involvement and interaction are keys to social responsibility 2.0. CSR must be part of the corporate DNA and not an add-on. To borrow Friedman’s well-known phrase: The business of business is business! And that is exactly the philosophy of MYC4. The business of business is business! This is a liberal interpretation of the famous economist and [...]

Herman Mulder: Don’t Waste A Good Crisis

Herman Mulder — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:34:46 +0000

Don’t waste a good crisis: it is a challenge, it is pain, and of course with many losers. But it should also be seen as an opportunity: to revitalize and even reinvent ourselves, to sharpen our fundamental values, to develop new priorities and opportunities, to build new coalitions. Todays Crisis: Lessons learned, promises made, promises kept? Every [...]

Teresa Fogelberg: Requiring transparency from all our companies

Teresa Fogelberg — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:50:20 +0000

The Global Reporting Initiative – provider of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework – welcomes the leadership Denmark is taking on sustainability reporting. GRI Deputy Chief Executive Teresa Fogelberg explains why. Spring is here, and I look forward to the light May evenings on the shores of Copenhagen. On May 14, I will be [...]

Lene Espersen: CSR in a time of crisis

Lene Espersen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:21 +0000

Danish businesses are often praised as being among the best in the world at exercising social and environmental responsibility. In my position as Minister for Economic and Business Affairs, it is also my clear impression that Danish businesses take social responsibility seriously and know how to use it actively to add value within their business and [...]