...Brian Leavy Purpose This interview with petroleum executive John Browne, lead author of Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society, discusses sustainability practices that could be more successful than those of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) movement. Design...

... Martin tracks the evolution of “shareholder capitalism” during the latter part of the 20th century and explains why it has become so detrimental. Porter and Kramer show business leaders how to restore credibility to capitalism by adopting a view of corporate social responsibility. Beer and his co‐authors...

... that corporations act in a socially responsible way. This means not only offering products and services that do not pose new environmental or social risks but also doing business in a way that supports the livelihood of people in the producing nations and sustainability of our planet’s eco‐systems. NGOs...

... has become less important, but because it is taken for granted, and ethical performance is not. Ethics Social responsibility Strategy Environment Corporate governance That there is a close, indeed unbreakable, link between ethics and social responsibility on the one hand and strategy...

.... The prevailing logic of business provides little incentive to do otherwise. Managers and scholars generally think about stakeholders in terms of morality, ethics, and social responsibility rather than economic value and competitive advantage. This article presents an economic theory of the firm and supporting...

... and how the critical issues may have changed in that time. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Change Social responsibility Corporate culture Shareholders Corporate governance Unemployment A Forum of Futurists: A Look Back and a Look Ahea Editor's Note: In this issue of Strategy & Leadership, we...