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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Edited by Muhammad Yunus, Karl Weber

The influential economist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of of free markets with the quest for a more humane world. Includes stories of companies that are already doing social business.

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international

International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Edited by Stephen Tully
Law Department
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

The changing social expectations of corporations within a globalized economic environment are challenging our traditional conception of the proper commercial function. This text delimits their emergent roles and responsibilities under international law.

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managing

Managing the Business Case for Sustainability
The Integration of Social, Environmental and Economic Performance

Edited by Stefan Schaltegger and Marcus Wagner
Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
University of Luneburg, Germany

The book presents a wide breadth of academic and practitioner perspectives on corporate social and environmental sustainability.

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responsible
ASrIA members are
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Responsible Investment
,
edited by Rory Sullivan
and Craig Mackenzie.

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Responsible Investment
Edited by Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie

MOST INVESTMENT TODAY is conducted by a relatively small number of institutional investors — pension funds and investment managers — who manage the pensions and saving funds of millions of ordinary people. The manner in which these institutional investors invest and discharge their responsibilities as the owners of companies is, therefore, of critical importance to society as a whole.

In recent years, some of the biggest institutional investors have actively encouraged companies to improve their management of social, ethical and environmental issues. A number have also sought to explicitly analyse companies’ performance on these issues and to incorporate this analysis into investment decision-making. These activities have contributed to important changes: a number of companies have committed to stabilising or reducing greenhouse gas emissions from their activities and operations, labour conditions in many retail supply chains have improved significantly, and many companies have significantly improved their governance of corporate responsibility issues.

However, to date, there has been little systematic analysis of fundamental questions such as: Do responsible investment strategies systematically result in improvements in the social, ethical and environmental performance of companies? To what extent is it in investors’ interest to encourage higher standards of corporate responsibility? Do responsible investment strategies enhance financial performance for investors?

In this ground-breaking collection, Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie have brought together some of the leading practitioners and commentators in the field of responsible investment to explore these questions. The contributors to this book present their views on the practicalities of implementing responsible investment strategies, the outcomes that have been achieved, the practical issues and barriers faced in implementing such strategies, and the challenges to be faced if responsible investment is to become a mainstream investment approach. The results are both unique and surprising.

This book will be mandatory reading for all those involved in the field of social and environmentally responsible investment, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility whether they be academics, researchers or practitioners.

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strategic

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility:
Stakeholders in a Global Environment
Author: William B. Werther Jr., David Chandler

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Stakeholders in a Global Environment provides faculty and students with a comprehensive, stand-alone text to support traditional and innovative courses in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Integral to the book's unique format is the real-life “mini-case-study” approach across the spectrum of CSR topics, backed by Internet accessible references. Adopting a stakeholder approach to CSR, the content and format of this sourcebook defines CSR within the global communications environment in which multi-national corporations operate today.


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market

The Market For Virtue: The Potential And Limits Of Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: David Vogel

The principles and practices of corporate social responsibility date back more than a century , but the current wave of global interest is unprecedented. With The Market for Virtue, David Vogel has provided the most comprehensive analysis to date of the contemporary CSR movement in both the United States and Europe.

Growing awareness of CSR is evident in the growth of social and ethical investment funds, voluntary codes of corporate conduct, and companies’ self-reporting on social and environmental practices. Deep grassroots interests can be seen in boycotts, protests, and the growing number of organizations monitoring corporate social and environmental performance. A renowned authority on business-government relations, Vogel offers a thoughtful and balanced appraisal of the movement’s accomplishments and limitations, including a critical evaluation of the business case for CSR.

While acknowledging the movement’s achievements—most notably in labor, human rights, and environmental conditions in developing countries—Vogel also demonstrates that CSR’s potential to bring about a significant change in corporate behavior is exaggerated. While corporate social responsibility can be a useful tool alongside laws and regulations, it cannot completely replace them.

The Market for Virtue explores the extent to which improvements in corporate conduct can occur without more extensive or effective government regulation—in the United States, Europe, the Far East, and developing nations. In other words, what is the long-term potential of business self-regulation? The improvement that can be expected is far more modest than recent breathless writing on CSR would indicate. At some point, many businesses must choose between doing what seems ethically rights and what is most profitable. Since businesses are typically found to make money—and because shareholders and capitalism demand that they do so—the bottom line tends to win out. There is a market for virtue, but it is limited by the substantial costs of more responsible business behavior.

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revolution

The Sustainability Revolution
Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Author: Andres R. Edwards

Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of our time - the Sustainability Revolution. This book paints a picture of this largely unrecognized phenomenon from the point of view of five major sectors of society, concluding that the values emerging from sustainability work define a major paradigm shift. The first book of its kind, it will appeal to business and government policy makers, academics, and all interested in sustainability.

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next wave

The Next Sustainability Wave : Building Boardroom Buy - in (Conscientious Commerce)
Author: Bob Willard

The idea of sustainability has been embraced enthusiastically by some businesses and rejected by others. The first wave of corporate converts to sustainability was perhaps driven by a public relations crisis, regulatory pressures or the founder's personal passion. The next wave, however, requires different drivers if it is to build a critical mass for corporate responsibility in the business community.

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banking

Sustainable Finance & Banking
The Financial Sector and the Future of the Planet
Author: Marcel Jeucken

This book sets out to rectify the state of affairs detailed above, in a style which is also accessible to those with no experience of environmental or finance issues. It provides a comprehensive account of their interdependence: why the financial sector is crucial to achieving sustainability and why the triple bottom line of commercial, environmental and social success points the way forward for banking.

From a systematic assessment of major banks around the world, the book presents a comprehensive account of current best practice, an analysis of the differences in approach and performance, and recommendations of actions and policies for improved performance that will contribute to sustainable development.

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corporations

Corporations and the Public Interest : Guiding the Invisible Hand
Author: Steven Lydenberg

Private enterprise is rapidly taking hold as the world's dominant economic paradigm, but business scandals, environmental degradation, and rampant poverty are stark reminders that business alone - unregulated and unsupervised - will not solve the world's problems. Using a unique market-based approach and a socially inclusive definition of wealth, Corporations and the Public Interest offers a refreshing new system for assessing corporations' real commitment to the public. Steven Lydenberg's plan includes strategies for steering companies in socially responsible directions and imposing costs on those that neglect their responsibilities to the community.

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paywithoutperformance

Pay without Performance - The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
Author: Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried

Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of executives' power to influence their own pay -- and of the structural defects in corporate governance that give them this power. As this book demonstrates, boards have persistently failed to negotiate at arm¡¦s length with the executives they are meant to oversee. Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried give a richly detailed account of how pay practices- from option plans to retirement benefits-have decoupled compensation from performance and camouflaged both the amount and performance-insensitivity of pay. They show that flaws in pay arrangements and the pay-setting process have been widespread and systemic. These problems have hurt shareholders both by increasing pay levels and, even more importantly, by leading to practices that dilute and distort managers' incentives.

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All About Paper

The exploding demand for paper in India provides opportunities and challenges for the Pulp & Paper sector to adopt more sustainable practices. But some companies extract a high environmental cost. This publication shows how profits with ecological stewardship can be achieved.

This in-depth resource book documents the findings of CSE's 2004 Green Rating of the Pulp and Paper sector in India. A comprehensive Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach for assessing the environmental performance of pulp and paper industry, and includes detailed company profiles.

A must read for CEOs, regulators, managers, academicians and concerned citizens.

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reputational risk

Managing Reputational Risk
Author: Jenny Rayner

Managing reputational risk goes beyond PR and spin, and explains the need for strong leadership; robust management, monitoring and reporting mechanisms; careful customer and supplier screening; and the co-operation of external partners. It "demystifies reputation risk management, making it accessible to the board," according to the newsletter of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Chapter 1. Reputation Unravelled.
Chapter 2. The Business Case for Reputation Risk Management.
Chapter 3. Risk Management: An Overview.
Chapter 4. Identifying, Prioritising and Responding to Risks.
Chapter 5. Making Reputation Risk Management Everyone's Business.
Chapter 6. Managing Threats and Opportunities to Reputation.
Chapter 7. Reputation in the Spotlight.
Chapter 8. Peace of Mind Through Audit and Assurance.
Chapter 9. Bolstering Reputation Through Transparent Reporting and Communications.
Chapter 10. Maintaining Momentum.
Chapter 11. Towards a Sustainable Reputation.
Chapter 12. Future Challenges and Opportunities.
Appendix A: The Hermes Principles.
Appendix B: Appendix to the Turnbull Report.
Appendix C: BP's Policy Commitment on Ethical Conduct.
Appendix D: Twelve Steps for Implementing a Code of Business Ethics.

340 pages, hardback
ISBN 0-471-49951-X
Publisher: Wiley

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fair value

Is Fair Value Fair?

Editors: Professor Henk Langendijk, Professor Dirk Swagerman and Willem Verhoog

Financial reporting from an international perspective aims to fully prepare readers for the introduction of the International Financial Reporting Standards in 2005. These, the authors say, will radically change methods of financial reporting, making this volume an invaluable tool for corporate financiers and institutional investors.

Introduction

Part I: The future of international accounting.

  • The model of Black and Scholes is like Newtonian physics
    before Einstein was born (R. Elliott).
  • Current US accounting issues (N. Strauss).

Part II: Regulations and regulators.

  • We have to produce one set of unified high-quality global
    standards (D. Tweedie).
  • EFRAG: a new force to be reckoned with in the reporting field
    (J. Van Helleman).
  • Not partial, but full application of IAS (L. van der Tas). IAS and the European Union (K. van Hulle).
  • IAS and legislation (J. Klaassen).
  • Shifting towards an Anglo-Saxon perspective on rules (E. Eeftink).
  • Uniform rules are important, but they must not block the view (J. den Hoed).

Part III: Supervision and compliance.

  • Towards a new supervisory landscape (P. Koster).
  • The Enterprise and Companies Court as supervisory body (J. Willems), Globalisation is OK, as long as it takes account of Dutch culture (M. van Hoepen).
  • Enforcement of IAS is crucial for the realisation of a global standard for financial reporting (R. Vergoossen).

Part IV: IAS and the users of financial statements.

  • Unambiguous rules, timely reports and close supervision (P. de Vries).
  • The supervisory director: striking the right balance (P. van den Hoek).
  • Insurers are lagging behind (L. Traas).
  • Double Dutch in financial reporting: highly flexible = extremely judgemental? (H. Langendijk).
  • The auditor is gratefully back on his pedestal (P. Lakeman).

Part V: Fair value accounting.

  • The irrepressible advance of Fair Value Accounting (M. Hoogendoorn).
  • From profit smoothing to a true and fair presentation of profits at insurance companies and pension funds (A. Oosenbrug).
  • Introduction of Fair Value Accounting: little if any haste (K. Storm).
  • Fair Value Accounting will result in less transparency and more volatility in banks' financial reporting (B. Bruggink).
  • Financial statements are a result of policy and not a factor informing policy (J. Groeneveld).
  • Financial reporting and the search for truth (D. Swagerman).
  • Warning signals about the application of fair value for financial instruments (T. O'Malley and P. Hofste).

Part VI: Capita selecta: external financial reporting and law.

  • IAS: right or wrong? (H. Beckman).
  • Part VII External financial reporting and new-economy companies.
  • The valuation of new-economy companies (A. de Bos).

Part VIII: International financial reporting by governments.

  • IPSAS and financial reporting by the Dutch government (A. Bac).

Part IX: The relationship between management accounting and
financial accounting.

  • Interaction between internal and external reporting (E. Vosselman).

Part X: Business combination accounting.

  • A creative approach to mergers and acquisitions (J. Blommaert).

Epilogue: Toward a single global reporting system.

Willem Verhoog
Physical description: 384 pages, hardback
Publication date: March 2003
ISBN 0-470-85028-0
Publisher: Wiley

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teaching ethics
Environmental Ethics
Editor: Dr Rosamund Thomas

Coursebook: Environmental ethics is an invaluable training resource presenting both practical standards, environmental audit and 'best practice' and ideals to which countries can aspire. Its presentation of environmental law and sustainable management serves as a core text for MBA courses on environmental ethics and corporate social responsibility.

Foreword by the recent Chairman of the UK Royal Commission
on Environmental Pollution

Case-study analyses including: the 'The Bhopal Gas Disaster'
'Industrial Quarrying in the Yorkshire Dales' (UK).

Notable contributors: Canadian Federal Government, a Local
Agenda 21 case-study (UK local government); professor George
Frederickson on 'Social equity between generations'.

Blueprints provided for:

  • ethics and corporate responsibility by government
  • ethics and corporate responsibility by industry, such as the nuclear energy industry
  • ethics and environmental audit
  • environmental Liability
  • ethics and environmental reporting
  • science, technology and environmental ethics

    Physical description:805 pages with colour illustrations, hardback
    Publication date: October 1996
    ISBN: 1-871891-06-X
    Publisher: Ethics International Press

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value2value

Values to Value - A Global Dialogue on Sustainable Finance
Chief Editor: Paul Clements Hunt, Head of Unit, UNEP FI
Co-ordinating Editors: Regina Kessler and Robert Reid
Content Editors: Graham Cooper and Marni Robinson

WHAT IS THE PRESENT STATE of sustainable finance? Who is actively involved in the sustainable finance agenda? How can the ideals of sustainable development be incorporated into the business practices and models of the finance sector? How can capital markets support the ¡¥people, planet, prosperity¡¦ ethic?

These questions and more are addressed in the UNEP FI report entitled Values to Value: A Global Dialogue on Sustainable Finance. Through a compilation of essays from almost 100 sustainable finance experts and practitioners from all over the world, this report presents an incisive look into the minds of some of those most active players in this fascinating field. The report is divided into thematic sections to address issues such as Asset Management; Climate Change; Export Credit Agencies; Environmental Management, Reporting and Indicators; and Financial Systems; along with region-specific coverage.

The report is based on the two-year UNEP FI ¡¥Global Tour¡¦ conference series that engaged over 1,700 finance practitioners, NGOs, government officials and other private-sector representatives in a dialogue on finance and sustainability. Over this two-year period the UNEP FI team was able to gather a world-roving perspective of the various regional approaches to sustainable finance and the key issues that apply. This finance-sector perspective was brought to WSSD by UNEP FI and is now captured in the Values to Value report.

If you are involved in the sustainable finance field or would like to get up to speed on such issues, this is the key text available today.

Values to Value (V2V) consists of 550 pages in a ring-bound format. Within the report package there is a CD-ROM containing over 150 presentations, the PDF version of the actual report, along with various reports, studies and publications that have come out of two years of UNEP FI work. The report is divided into thematic as well as regional sections. The ¡¥Global Outreach Tour¡¦ section consists of eight reports detailing the key outcomes of the various region-specific and global events that have taken place over the past two years. The second section of the report focuses on UNEP FI¡¦s key working groups and regional taskforces to illustrate the progress and direction that the finance sector has taken towards adopting sustainable development ideals on both a thematic and region-specific level. The report also includes almost 100 articles from key experts to give incisive up-to-date perspectives on the various issues at hand.

Published by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative

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best

The Best Business Stories of the Year: 2004 Edition
by Andrew Leckey (Editor)


Ethics, disclosure, labor relations, executive compensation, and insider trading are among the topics related to socially responsible investment in this collection of business articles.

The 2004 edition of The Best Business Stories of the Year is a compendium of articles that reveal the human stories behind the headlines. The book features some of the best journalists being published, so it is not surprising that the articles were brimming with crisp writing and perspectives you cannot get from front page news. Several of the articles hit home to me personally, as they discussed Henry Blodget, the disgraced former Merrill Lynch (ticker: MER) stock analyst.

Many of the other articles in this year's edition of the Best Business Stories address core issues for socially responsible investing, such as labor relations at Wal-Mart (WMT) and Starbucks (SBUX), executive compensation, and insider stock sales.

Paperback: 496 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x 7.99 x 5.19
Publisher: Vintage Books; (January 6, 2004)
ISBN: 140003146X

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State of the World

State of the World 2004
by Brian Halweil, Lisa Mastny, Erik Assadourian, Christopher Flavin, Hilary French, Gary Gardner, Danielle Nierenberg, Sandra Postel, Michael Renner, Radhika Sarin, Janet Sawin, Amy Vickers, Linda Starke (Editor), Worldwatch Institute, The Worldwatch Institute

In State of the World 2004, the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning research team focuses on consumption, pointing to the many ways in which our consumption habits drive ecological and social deterioration, as well as how these habits can be redirected to reinforce environmental and social goals. As always, State of the World 2004 provides government officials, journalists, professors, students, and concerned citizens with a comprehensive analysis of the global environmental problems we face along with detailed descriptions of practical, innovative solutions¡Xlike charting the most environmentally sound path to a hydrogen-fueled economy, or accelerating the rapidly growing conversion of farmers worldwide to organic farming and sustainable agriculture.

Written in clear and concise language, with easy-to-read charts and tables, State of the World 2004 presents a view of our changing world that we, and our leaders, cannot afford to ignore.

Paperback: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x 9.26 x 6.98
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; (January 2004)
ISBN: 0393325393

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What Matters Most

What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening
by Jeffrey Hollender, Stephen Fenichell


What Matters Most is a report from the front lines of a social revolution by one of its most thoughtful and committed leaders. Based on hundreds of interviews with activists, CSR experts and business leaders at both small and large companies, this book takes nothing for granted and does not hesitate to ask the tough questions. There is no better guide to the real dilemmas, and real promise, of the corporate social responsibility movement.

Hardcover: 240 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 9.24 x 6.36
Publisher: Basic Books; (December 23, 2003)
ISBN: 0738209023

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Corporate Responsibility Code Book

The Corporate Responsibility Code Book
by Deborah Leipziger

It is a guide for companies trying to understand the landscape of corporate responsibility and searching for their own, unique route towards satisfying diverse stakeholders. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. A company may face quite different challenges if it operates in more than part of the world. And yet stakeholders, especially consumers and investors, are keen for some degree of comparability with which they can evaluate corporate performance. There are countervailing forces at work within corporate responsibility: on the one hand is the need for convergence in order to simplify the large numbers of codes and standards; and, on the other hand, the need to foster diversity and innovation.

November 2003

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green

How Does it Pay to Be Green?
by Marcus Wagner

An Analysis of the Relationship between Environmental and Economic Performance at the Firm Level and the Influence of Corporate Environmental Strategy Choice

How Does it Pay to Be Green? provides a detailed discussion of the relationship between environmental and economic performance and in particular the influence of operational environmental strategy choice on this relationship. After formulating a theoretical model of the relationship, the book comprehensively reviews existing studies and subsequently reports the results of two new empirical analyses of the relationship carried out by the author.

These two new studies use new European data and new data on operational environmental strategies to test hypotheses derived from the theoretical model. In the first empirical study, for an emissions-based index of environmental performance, a predominantly negative relationship is found for the paper industry in four European countries, whereas for an inputs-based index no significant link is found.

The second empirical study reported in this book analyses survey data of British and German manufacturing firms and for the first time applies the Environmental Shareholder Value concept to define corporate environmental strategies. The analysis finds that for firms with a value-based environmental strategy the relationship between environmental performance and different dimensions of competitiveness is more positive than for firms without such a strategy.

How Does it Pay to Be Green? provides essential reading for practitioners and academics on how to successfully manage the link between environmental and economic performance and gives valuable strategic insights on how corporate sustainability management can benefit the bottom line.

244 Seiten, Pb, Tectum Verlag 2003
ISBN 3-8288-8507-1
25,90 Euro

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Sustainable Company

The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value Through Social and Environmental Performance
by Chris Laszlo

Corporate governance and sustainability are moving from important peripheral problems to core business concerns, as winning companies discover stakeholders as new sources of value. Yet there are many obstacles to bringing these issues into the mainstream of business. Concepts like sustainable development can be confusing for operating managers, and even those who support the underlying issues find it difficult to frame them in ways that are useful for making business decisions. As a manager you have a responsibility to deliver financial returns to your shareholders: how can you balance this obligation with your responsibilities to society and the environment?

The Sustainable Company articulates an innovative approach to meeting this challenge in a language familiar to business. The key is to create value for investors as well as society and the environment in an integrated bottom line. The book provides detailed case studies of leading companies illustrating this new paradigm in practice. The ¡§how-to¡¨ section with a tool-kit for managers elevates The Sustainable Company above other recent eco-friendly business books, by providing the Eight Disciplines necessary to create value for shareholders and stakeholders. Its engaging, straightforward text tells the reader how to compete and thrive in an increasingly complex world. The Sustainable Company is the solutions manual for the 21st century manager.

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Socially Responsible Investment: a Guide for Pension Funds and Institutional Investors
by Mansley, Mark

This work covers investment from an institutional perspective. It provides socially responsible advice and guidance on how to enhance the investment performance of pension funds and to provide additional benefits to members through the implementation of an effective SRI policy.

Paperback
29 April 2000
Informa UK Ltd


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greenchina

Greening Chinese Business-Barriers, Trends and Opportunities for Environmental Management
by Ulrich Steger, Fang Zhaoben and Lu Wei


ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN CHINA is not really different from that in the rest of the world, except that environmental authorities are relatively new and less established. In order to understand why corporate environmental performance has hardly improved despite the existing regulatory framework, empirical research on high-level executives¡¦ perceptions of environmental protection is essential.

This unique book analyses and interprets Chinese managers¡¦ perceptions of environmental management and regulatory enforcement practices in Chinese enterprises. Most importantly, it identifies the bottlenecks to environmental protection in Chinese firms. It includes a detailed analysis of the needs for management training (for example, CEO and executive development and MBA education) in China and presents a roadmap of how they can be met. Finally, it presents two case studies that illustrate how Chinese corporations currently react to a wide range of different environmental challenges, including hardening regulatory pressure, competition and lack of capital.

Based on an innovative research project sponsored by the UNESCO/UNDP offices in Beijing and undertaken by the Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland and the Business School of the Academy of Science and Technology (USTC), Hefei, China, Greening Chinese Business provides the first hard empirical evidence of how Chinese managers view environmental protection. Over 300 companies¡Xboth state-owned enterprises and SMEs¡Xtook part in the research.


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Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
by Lester R. Brown

Plan B calls for a worldwide mobilization to stabilize population and climate before they spiral out of control. It provides a plan for sustaining economic progress worldwide.

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winners

The Winners and Losers in Global Competition

Why eco-efficiency reinforces competitiveness: A study of 44 nations

The publication by Andreas Sturm, Kaspar Muller and Mathis Wackernagel was sponsored by Union Bancaire Privee (UBP), a Swiss privat Bank and Swiss Society for Environmental Protection (SGU). A German edition is available.

The bank uses the concept presented in this publication as a bases for their sustainable bond portfolio >Generations Futures Obligations Internationales< (see also here).

Nations whose consumption does not exceed the ecological capacity of their country and who also use their natural capital efficiently will be among the winners in the struggle for global competitiveness.

The Winners and Losers in Global Competition explains why this is the case.

The analysis, building on a measure of a nation's use of ecological assets called the ecological footprints, shows how the world as a whole is already transgressing its ecological long-term possibilities,and how this could be remediated using appropriate economic incentives.

In essence, the book highlights how countries¡¦ ecological performance will increasingly affect their economic competitiveness.

The figures and tables document how the forty-four nations analysed perform today and what their chances are for succeed in the future.

The publication can be ordered from the publisher (German/English) or through amazon.com (German).

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Atlas Series- The State of the World Atlas
by Dan Smith

"The State of the World Atlas is something else - an occasion of wit and an act
of subversion. These are the bad dreams of the modern world, given color and shape and submitted to a grid that can be grasped instantaneously" NEW YORK TIMES

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Pensions and Retirement Funds in Hong Kong
Challenges, Issues and Opportunities

by Jeremy Gadbury, Alan Taylor and Jonathan Watkin

Published by ISI Publications, Hong Kong, Bermuda and the United Kingdom

This is a comprehensive book yet produced on the retirement fund system in Hong Kong, and the first detailed appraisal of the Hong Kong's Mandatory Provident Fund system since it was introduced in December 2000. It covers the origination and development of pension and retirement systems in the context of other social benefits in Hong Kong, provides an insight into the challenges facing all the various market participants (trustees, fund managers, custodians, sponsors, employers, regulators etc), and offers views on the way forward for this important and growing market.

The book has been written by experts in the field with considerable experience in pensions and investment management in government and in the private sector. It is expected to become an authoritative reference source for those operating both in Hong Kong and globally who are interested in the Hong Kong experience and its application to the development of retirement systems in other jurisdictions.

The book will be published in North America, Asia and Europe on 1st September 2003 and is priced at US$299 including worldwide delivery. There is a 17% discount for orders prior to publication date. The book may be ordered direct from the publishers through their online website www.booksonbiz.com which has more detail.

Further information is available from the publishers at: info@isipublications.com

The Ecology of Commerce

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
by Paul Hawken

This makes you think differently about business and its role in making our lives richer, healthier and happier. A very optimistic and pragmatic book. Unlike many business books, Hawken is not in denial about the environmental crisis.

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natural

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul/Lovins Hawken (Author)

A milestone in human understanding of capitalism. This develops many of the themes in Ecology of Commerce as well as the pioneering work of Amory and Hunter Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Take the first steps to getting technical and doing something about the transformation of business practices.

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The New Global Investors

The New Global Investors: How Shareowner s can Unlock Sustainable Prosperity Worldwide
by Robert A. G. Monks

This champion of corporate democracy, a successful and wealthy businessman in his own right, and world reknowned shareholder activist has bridged the gap between socially responsible investment and corporate governance. A must read about the increasingly influential role of pension funds in shaping the world economy.

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SRI: A Global Revolution

  

Socially Responsible Investment: A Global Revolution (Society of Investment Professions)
by Russell Sparkes

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SRI: Making a Difference and Making Money

Socially Responsible Investing : Making a Difference and Making Money
by Amy L. Domini

An excellent primer from a US perspective, on socially responsible investment.
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The Sri Advantage: Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially

The Sri Advantage: Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially
by Peter Camejo (Editor), Ralph Nader, Robert A. G. Monks (Introduction), Andrew T. Williams (Contributor), Stephen Viederman (Contributor)

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The Dollar Crisis: Cause, Consequences, Cures

The Dollar Crisis: Cause, Consequences, Cures
by Richard Duncan

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Investing for Good: Making Money While Being Socially Responsible
by Peter D. Kinder, Steven D. Lydenberg and Amy L. Domini

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Sustainable Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future

  

Sustainable Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future
Edited by Martin Charter, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK and Ursula Tischner, econcept, Germany

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Finance & Natural Environment-Experience of Poland against the background of developed market economies
The team of authors composed of specialists from Poland, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland and Japan (Good Bankers) with two editors Leszek Dziawgo, Professor of Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland and Danuta Dziawgo, PhD

ISBN 83-7285-134-4, was published in English from DOM Organizatora, Poland, 87-100 Torun, Czerwona Droga 8. Book can be obtained for e-mailing to the publisher at tnoik@tnoik.torun.pl

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