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About.com: Business Ethics
http://management.about.com/od/businessethics/Business_Ethics.htm
and
http://humanresources.about.com/od/businessethics/Business_Ethics.htm
"Expert chosen" guides, with links to websites with articles,
directories, rankings, etc.
Business and Social Initiatives Database
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/basi/VpiSearch.Main
From the
International Labor Organization, a searchable database covering
global business practices, linking to the websites of individual
companies and organizations. Search by a combination of criteria
including country, industry, and “corporate social responsibility
topics” (e.g. “code of conduct/policy)” or “labour & employment
topics” (e.g. “living/decent wage” and “community relations”).
Business Ethics Magazine
http://www.business-ethics.com
Includes sections on various
corporate award winners, annual list of “100 best corporate
citizens“ (with brief profiles, comparisons, and statistics) and
socially responsible investing.
Business for Social Responsibility
http://www.bsr.org
Covers issues such as child labor, living
wages, volunteerism, sustainability, and mission statements. "Issue
Briefs" (listed under "research") are overviews of topical issues
such as "Domestic Partner Benefits " "Forest Friendly Practices "
and "Work Life Quality
Also news from CSR Wire.
Affiliated with Net
Impact
http://www.net-impact.org , an organization founded by, and
directed toward, graduate business students and “new leaders”.
Center
for Ethics and Business
http://www.ethicsandbusiness.org
Good for finding case
studies with discussion, sometimes presented in a whimsical, informal style.
Long list of links to global ethics organizations and university
programs, from center based at Loyola Marymount University.
Code
of Ethics Online
http://ethics.iit.edu/codes/coe.html
Codes of ethics in various
fields, including business, government, and non-profit
organizations. Includes links to other related online ethics
resources and organizations.
CSRwire.com: Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire
http://www.csrwire.com
Searchable business news site.
“Resources” section includes articles on ethical and socially
responsible business practices, and links to organizations that
monitor business activities for environmental and humanitarian
compliance. Sister organization to
One
Report
http://www.one-report.com/news.html,
the "sustainability reporting network", with news and
articles and which offers oversight for companies for a fee.
CorpWatch
http://www.corpwatch.org
Emphasis is on how individuals can
get involved in efforts to promote positive corporate attitudes.
Searchable news site covering companies that comply with or violate
‘acceptable’ labor and environmental practices. “Research tools”
essays and web links cover topical issues such as human rights,
socially responsible investment, and sweatshops.
KLD's
Domini
400 Social Index.
http://www.kld.com/indexes/ds400index/index.html
The website for this
series of pioneering mutual funds. Main KLD site also has more
general articles and links on the topic of socially responsible
investing at
http://www.kld.com/resources/index.html
See also websites
for similarly-minded funds such as
Calvert
http://www.calvertgroup.com,
Pax World Funds
http://www.paxfund.com
See other links at
SocialFunds.com
http://www.socialfunds.com
Ethical Corporation
http://www.ethicalcorp.com
Free registration required to
access timely full-text articles on a wide variety of topics such as
green marketing and “limits of corporate responsibility“. Search by
topic, world region, or format (e.g. case studies or interviews).
Ethics
& Compliance Officer Association
http://www.theecoa.org
Links to business ethics and
compliance news and "resources": internal (ECOA Resources")
and external ("links") directories and reports. FAQs discuss codes
of conduct, government compliance regulations, and the
responsibility of ethics officers.
Ethics
Resource Center
http://www.ethics.org
Long-standing organization devoted to reporting and
oversight of corporate and organizational ethics. "Resources" and "ERC
Publications" sections link to relevant guides, articles, reports,
surveys, videos, podcasts, etc.
Ethisphere
http://ethisphere.com
"Ethical news and commentary" magazine website.
Feature articles include quarterly ratings on benchmarks for
corporations, compliance ratings. Also: events calendar, blog and an
"experts corner" where corporate ethics and compliance officers
discuss aspects of their companies' policies.
Global
Reporting Initiative
http://www.globalreporting.org
Site for a "collaborating
centre of the United Nations Environment Programme".
News and guidelines on international efforts on sustainability
(including reporting those efforts).
Research Library at
http://www.globalreporting.org/Learning/ResearchPublications
has full-text reports on specific sectors, and related
human rights and ethics issues
International Business Ethics Institute
http://www.business-ethics.org
Overview, discussion, and
definitions of general business ethics, corporate governance,
corporate responsibility and, social responsibility. Selected
articles from back issues of International Business Ethics Review at
http://www.business-ethics.org/iberpubback.asp
Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research
http://www.zicklincenter.org
Based at the University of
Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School of Business. Site includes
links to periodicals (see "Ethics Today" section), other institutes’ websites (under “Research
Links”), individual reports and articles (linked to the university’s
site “Knowledge at Wharton”,
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu which provides free access
with registration (“Center Sponsored Research” and “New
Developments”).
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