Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
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<strong>Responsible</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>: A <strong>Toolkit</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Winning</strong> <strong>Companies</strong><br />
37 The United Nations Global Compact is a United Nations initiative to encourage businesses<br />
worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their<br />
implementation. It is a principle-based framework <strong>for</strong> businesses, stating ten principles in<br />
the areas of human rights, labour, the environment, and anti-corruption.<br />
38 OECD <strong>Guide</strong>lines <strong>for</strong> Multinational Enterprises are recommendations providing voluntary<br />
principles and standards <strong>for</strong> responsible business conduct <strong>for</strong> multinational corporations<br />
operating in or from countries adhered to the Declaration.<br />
39 Transparency International <strong>Business</strong> Principles <strong>for</strong> Countering Bribery are the principles are<br />
intended to be a comprehensive reference <strong>for</strong> companies on good practices to counter<br />
bribery.<br />
40 CRT Principles <strong>for</strong> <strong>Business</strong> embody the aspiration of principled business leadership. The<br />
principles are a worldwide vision <strong>for</strong> ethical and responsible corporate behavior and serve<br />
as a foundation <strong>for</strong> action <strong>for</strong> business leaders worldwide.<br />
41 Sullivan (member of Board of Directors, General Motors) Principles applied economic pressure<br />
to end apartheid. The principles became the blueprint <strong>for</strong> ending an unjust system.<br />
42 The United Nations Global Compact is a United Nations initiative to encourage businesses<br />
worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their<br />
implementation. It is a principle-based framework <strong>for</strong> businesses, stating ten principles in<br />
the areas of human rights, labour, the environment, and anti-corruption.<br />
43 CERES, founded in 1989, is a non-profit, national network of investors, environmental<br />
organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to<br />
address sustainability challenges such as global climate change.<br />
44 These policies focus on environmental and social sustainability.<br />
45 Bench Marks is one of the most comprehensive sets of social and environmental criteria and<br />
business per<strong>for</strong>mance indicators that are useful <strong>for</strong> developing and monitoring corporate<br />
codes of conduct.<br />
46 The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) produces one of the world's most prevalent standards<br />
<strong>for</strong> sustainability reporting as routine as, and comparable to, financial reporting.<br />
47 International Standards of Accounting and Reporting is the only intergovernmental expert<br />
body focused on corporate transparency and accounting issues.<br />
48 SA8000 is a global social accountability standard <strong>for</strong> decent working conditions, developed<br />
and overseen by Social Accountability International (SAI).<br />
49 ISO launched the development of an International Standard providing guidelines <strong>for</strong> social<br />
responsibility (SR) named ISO 26000.<br />
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