Hoofdprijs BID Challenge voor Eindhovense ontwerper René Malcorps

De Eindhovense kunstenaar/ontwerper René Malcorps heeft gisteren een van de twee hoofdprijzen gewonnen in de internationale wedstrijd voor verantwoord ondernemen BiD (Business in Development). Malcorps won 15.000 euro om de uitvoering te bekostigen van zijn business plan met zogeheten African skin. Dat is een soort textiel gemaakt van boomschors. ... lees meer

Seminar Eastern Neighbours, MVO in Oost-Europa

Op 19 oktober 2006 vindt in Babel te Utrecht het seminar Eastern Neighbours, MVO in Oost-Europa plaats. Gedurende dit seminar behandelen diverse interessante sprekers op kritische en praktijkgerichte wijze de problematiek rond succesvol maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen in Oost-Europa. Het seminar is een samenwerking van MVO Nederland en Bep to the Bone. ... lees meer

Corporate Social Responsibility: More Than Just Charity

It is now nearly 20 years since “sustainable development” was defined by the Brundtland Commission as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” While not exactly new at the time, this event, and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development several years later, in 1992, are commonly regarded as the birth of the modern sustainability movement. ... lees meer

België beschikt over MVO-referentiekader

België beschikt over een Referentiekader voor Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen (MVO) Het referentiekader werd in concept voorgelegd aan 46 stakeholders met als resultaat een referentiekader over MVO in België en een reeks acties om MVO te promoten. ... lees meer

Growing friction in Europe over corporate responsibility

Europe’s social affairs commissioner and a British environmental leader clashed Friday over whether the European Union is succeeding in its push for more social and ecological accountability among big corporations. The exchange at a Prague conference for lawyers, business and public officials underscored a widening gap between defenders and critics of the “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) system launched in 2000 at the EU’s Lisbon summit. ... lees meer

Corporate responsibility: Why don’t they trust you with CSR?

Ethical principles are driving sales, but marketers are being left on the shelf when it comes to decisions about social responsibility. Successful brands were once built around meeting a consumer need with the right product, at the right price and of the right quality. Today, the marketing agenda has been hijacked by a much more difficult to define, but impossible to ignore, beast: corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR should be an intrinsic part of modern brand management, which means marketing and CSR departments need to work together. But for many marketers, ethics may as well be a foreign language and in most companies, the marketing and CSR departments sit on opposite sides of business with little, if any, communication between them. ... lees meer