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- Adversary Accounting: strategic uses of financial information by capital and labour
This paper illustrates the concept and implications of "adversary accounting" in the context of both "intra-capital" and "capital-labour" disputes. Informed by a small pilot study on the uses made by unions and their approaches to financial information, we explore whether accounting techniques and financial information are necessarily "capitalist" tools or whether they can be used "strategically" by anyone with the access, skill and will to turn them to their advantage....
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen, Syd Weston, and Christopher J. Whelan. 1993. Adversary Accounting: strategic uses of financial information by capital and labour. Accounting, Organisations and Society 18 (1):81-100.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Labour
- An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting
MSN’s analysis is based primarily on Walmex’s 2009 SRSD Report. It also relies on other, publicly available information about company policy and practice in order to supplement and compare with the company’s own reporting....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2010. An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
- An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting: Summary
The following is a summary of MSN’s report, which identifies strengths, gaps and weaknesses in Walmex’s 2009 SRSD Report, points to social and environmental performance issues that arise from consideration of the company’s CSR reporting, and puts forward a number of recommendations for improvements in policy, practice and reporting. The report also discusses some of the company’s underlying policies and practices that are of concern to outside stakeholders....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2010. An Assessment of Wal-Mart de Mexico (Walmex) Social Responsibility Reporting: Summary. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
- Apparel Production in the Americas After Quotas: Lessons from the Dominican Republic
Although price remains the main factor in sourcing decisions, brands are also concerned with guaranteeing that their products reach stores at the right time. According to brand representatives, instability in different countries also motivates brands to keep work in different countries located in different regions. For brands selling in the US market, it is quite likely that their strategies first divide suppliers into two big categories: Asia/Americas....
Citation: Traub-Werner, Marion. 2007. Apparel Production in the Americas After Quotas: Lessons from the Dominican Republic. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour
- Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics
The referenced paper is one of the first to attempt to use ethics in order to provide guidelines for the labor activities of international commercial organizations. The paper seeks to find a balance b...
Citation: L. Hartman, B. Shaw and R. Stevenson. 1999. Balancing Sweatshop Ethics and Economics. University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Development, Economic, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Public Policy, Theory
- Bitter Harvest: Child Labour in the Cocoa Supply Chain
Lotte Greik (interim research manager, Timisoara), Jennifer Penikett (analyst) and Esther Hougee (Director, Research Products) analyse the key impacts and risk associated with the cocoa supply chain and explore best practices to achieve sustainability and fair trade....
Citation: Griek, Lotte, Jennifer Penikett and Esther Hougee. 2010. Bitter Harvest: Child Labour in the Cocoa Supply Chain. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour, Sustainability
- Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework
This report recapitulates the key features of the “protect, respect and remedy” framework and outlines the strategic directions of the Special Representative’s work streams to date in operationalizing the framework. [Sections are:I. IntroductionII. The...
Citation: Ruggie, John. 2009. Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the 'protect, respect and remedy' framework: United Nations.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour, Public Policy
- Business Ethics in Canada: A Personal View
The article presents a discussion on business ethics in Canada. It cites the two areas of concern such as the intensity of attacks by social activists on various forms of natural harvesting in Canada,...
Citation: Boyd, Colin. 1997. Business Ethics in Canada: A Personal View. Journal of Business Ethics 16 (6):605-609.
Areas of Interest: Consumer Issues - Ethical Consumption, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Gender, Labour, Public Policy
- Business Ethics: Policies and Persons
This comprehensive collection presents a case-method approach to teaching business ethics. It contains a wide range of individual, managerial, and corporate cases, many with an international perspecti...
Citation: Kenneth E Goodpaster, Laura L Nash and Henri-Claude de Bettignies. 2005. Business Ethics: Policies and Persons 4ed: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Areas of Interest: Education, Human Rights, Labour, Resource Extraction
- Can CSR Ratings Help Improve Labour Practices in Global Supply Chains?
Can CSR ratings help improve labour practices in global supply chains?, a new paper published by the Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) and the Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER), examines the potential of rating systems to drive improvements in supply chain labour practices....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network and the Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER). 2011. Can CSR Ratings Help Improve Labour Practices in Global Supply Chains? Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour, Sustainability
- Can National Competitiveness Strategies Include Decent Work? A comparative study of the garment export industries in Nicaragua and Honduras
A new study co-authored by the Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN - Canada), the Honduran Independent Monitoring Team (EMIH), and Professionals for Corporate Social Auditing (PASE - Nicaragua) challenges the conventional wisdom that competing on the basis of cheap labour is the only option for poor garment producing countries....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network, Honduran Independent Monitoring Team (EMIH) and Professionals for Corporate Social Auditing (PASE). 2012. Can National Competitiveness Strategies Include Decent Work? A comparative study of the garment export industries in Nicaragua and Honduras. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour
- Codes of Conduct in the Private Sector: A Review of the Academic Literature from 1987 to 2007
Sponsored by EthicsCentre CA and authored by Dr. Mark Baetz, Dr. A. Scott Carson, and Ms. Shelley McGill, this report is the definitive bibliographic source for research on the subject of Codes of Conduct in private sector workplaces....
Citation: Carson, A. Scott, Baetz, Mark, and McGill, Shelley. 2008. Codes of Conduct in the Private Sector: A Review of the Academic Literature from 1987 to 2007. [EthicsCentre CA].
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Labour
- Codes of Conduct of Multinational Companies and International Trade Union Action: Thoughts on the Contribution of State Law
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Citation: Vallee, Guylaine. 2003. Codes of Conduct of Multinational Companies and International Trade Union Action: Thoughts on the Contribution of State Law. Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Vol. 58, No. 3. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1663810
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour, Public Policy - Regulation, Theory - Shareholder
- Corporate Governance
Corporate governance (CG) is one of the most talked about topics in business, indeed in society, today. A Google search revealed 513 news citations during a single week in June 2006. Most academics, b...
Citation: Social Entrepreneurship. 2006. The Aspen Institute: Center For Business Education.
Areas of Interest: Accountability, Consumer Issues, Development, Economic - Social, Gender, Globalization, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty
- Corporate Responsibility, Maturing Innovation: A Sector-By-Sector Guide to Voluntary Initiatives
Get the inside track from some of the world's key sector initiativesThis report will:Update you on the progress of the various sector initiatives, highlighting which have developed a strong brand,...
Citation: Deborah Leipziger, Ethical Corporation Institute (2007). Corporate Responsibility, Maturing Innovation: A Sector-By-Sector Guide to Voluntary Initiatives. Special Report: March 2007. Ethical Corporation Institute.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Corporate Governance - Self-Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Labour, Resource Extraction, Theory - Stakeholder
- Corporate Social Performance: Reporting Roundtable
The purpose of this consultation (to take place in Toronto, Canada on December 7, 2009) is to elicit the views of informed stakeholders in a review of reporting and disclosure requirements under Ontario securities legislation for corporate “social” performance. In particular, the Consultation paper considers whether existing reporting and disclosure requirements on corporate social performance are adequate. If change is advisable, the question becomes what regulatory or other measures merit consideration....
Citation: Puri, Poonam, Edward J. Waitzer, Kevin Ranney, and Michael Torrance. 2009. Corporate Social Performance: Reporting Roundtable (December 7). SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1517953
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour
- Cultural and Socioeconomic Constraints on International Codes of Ethics: Lessons from Accounting
A framework is provided for the examination of cultural and socioeconomic factors that could impede the acceptance and implementation of a profession's international code of conduct. The framework is...
Citation: Cohen R., Jeffrey; Pant, Laurie; Sharp, David 1992. Cultural and Socioeconomic Constraints on International Codes of Ethics: Lessons from Accounting. Journal of Business Ethics 11 (9):687-700.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Economic - Social, Gender, Labour
- Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting? A Practitioner's Guide
Preparers of sustainability reports who want ideas on how to improve their gender reporting practices are the main intended audience of this publication. Moreover, it is hoped that this in turn will help organizations identify new opportunities to improve their gender management practices....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and International Finance Corporation (IFC), Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting? A Practitioner's Guide, GRI, 2009.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Consumer Issues, Corporate Social Responsibility, Gender, Human Rights, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Emergency Assistance, Redress and Prevention in the Hermosa Manufacturing Case
A new study prepared by the Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) for the Fair Labor Association (FLA) documents the desperate situation of former employees of the Hermosa Manufacturing facility in El Salvador, which closed in May 2005, leaving former Hermosa workers without jobs, without back wages, without severance pay, without health insurance and without employee pensions....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2007. Emergency Assistance, Redress and Prevention in the Hermosa Manufacturing Case. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour
- Ethical Work Climate Dimensions in a Not-For-Profit Organization: An Empirical Study
This paper is an attempt to address the limited amount of research in the realm of organizational ethical climate in the not-for-profit sector. The paper draws from Victor and Cullen's (1988) theoreti...
Citation: Agarwal, James; Malloy, David Cruise. 1999. Ethical Work Climate Dimensions in a Not-For-Profit Organization: An Empirical Study. Journal of Business Ethics 20 (1):1-14.
Areas of Interest: Codes of Conduct, Labour, Theory
- Ethics and Corporate Governance: The Issues Raised by the Cadbury Report in the United Kingdom
In the late 1980s there was a series of sensational business scandals in the United Kingdom. There was particular public outrage at the plundering of pension funds by Robert Maxwell, at the failure of...
Citation: Boyd, Colin. 1996. Ethics and Corporate Governance: The Issues Raised by the Cadbury Report in the United Kingdom. Journal of Business Ethics 15 (2):167-182.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Auditing, Corporate Governance, Labour, Labour - Employee
- FLA Response to the MSN Report on Hermosa
The Fair Labor Association responded to the MSN report....
Citation: Fair Labor Association (FLA). 2007. FLA Response to the MSN Report on Hermosa. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour
- Free Trade and Women in Business in the Americas - What Role Should Women's Organizations Play?
Our objective in this paper is to bring to the attention of businesswomen's organizations in Latin America the importance of collecting data on the increasing participation of women in the economy as entrepreneurs and managers....
Citation: Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie, Brandazza, Maria Daniela and Giusti, Cecilia. [2001?]. Free Trade and Women in Business in the Americas - What Role Should Women's Organizations Play?. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=283226
Areas of Interest: Education, Gender, Labour, Public Policy - Lobbying
- Global Action Local Change, Moving towards Sustainable Supply Chains
The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with an insight into sustainability reporting within the supply chains of large multinational buyers. The paper aims to identify the business case, benefits and challenges of reporting through the experiences of first-time reporters during their participation in the Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain (GANTSCh) Program between 2009 and 2010. Furthermore, to sketch the context, this paper provides the reader with information about the project countries, such as macroeconomic overview, sustainability context with reference to main actors, policies and legislation, country specific issues, and public awareness of sustainability and reporting....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Global Action Local Change, Moving towards Sustainable Supply Chains, GRI, 2011.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Globalization, Labour, Public Policy - Regulation, Sustainability
- Global Economy Contested: Power and Conflict Across the International Division of Labour
Multidisciplinary in its approach, the book brings together an international group of social scientists who share a common interest in providing critical examinations of contemporary globalizations. With perspectives from sociologists, political scientists and political economists, it juxtaposes the examination of global trends with the diverse contexts of specific regions and countries....
Citation: Taylor, Marcus, ed. 2008. Global Economy Contested: Power and Conflict Across the International Division of Labour. London: Routledge.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Globalization, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - 2001 Canadian National Executive Report
In 2001, 7% of all adults in Canada were actively engaged in starting a business. In this respect, Canada ranked 14th of the 29 countries participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research project in 2001. Three investigation methods are used in the GEM studies: an adult population survey; interviews with entrepreneurship experts in that country; and selected national and demographic data....
Citation: Riverin, Nathaly, Rein Peterson, and Robert Kleiman. 2002. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) - 2001 Canadian National Executive Report. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1509248
Areas of Interest: Education, Gender, Labour, Public Policy
- Government and Corporate Social Responsibility. An Overview of Selected Canadian, European and International Practices
An overview of the support a selection of governments are providing to businesses pursuing socially and environmentally responsible practices.The author states that there are significant and increas...
Citation: Kerby, D. 2001. Government and Corporate Social Responsibility. An Overview of Selected Canadian, European and International Practices. Canadian Business for Social Responsibility.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, Public Policy
- How Will the Global Financial Crisis Affect the Garment Industry and Garment Workers?
The global financial crisis now underway is expected to have major impacts on North American and European workers and consumers, including massive job losses and reductions in spending power. It will have even more serious consequences for workers in the global South....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2009. How Will the Global Financial Crisis Affect the Garment Industry and Garment Workers? Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Human Rights, Labour
- Incorporating Labor and Human Rights Risk Into Investment Decisions
A mounting number of institutional investors and global lenders are widening conventional investment decision-making to incorporate assessments of the risks posed by company practices affecting labor and human rights. These efforts are part of a broader m...
Citation: Bernstein, Aaron. 2008. Incorporating Labor and Human Rights Risk Into Investment Decisions. In Occasional Paper Series.
Areas of Interest: Human Rights, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using census data from the three largest developed countries in the world receiving Indian immigrants - the United States, United Kingdom and Canada - the authors examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and the causes of their success....
Citation: Fairlie, Robert W., Krashinsky, Harry A., Zissimopoulos, Julie M. and Kumar, Krishna. 2009. Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom (December 31). RAND Working Paper Series WR- 727. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1533487
Areas of Interest: Labour
- Interchangeability of Paid Staff and Volunteers in Nonprofit Organizations
This article examines the interchangeability of paid and volunteer labor. It reports on estimates and prevalence of such interchangeability through a series of studies of Canadian nonprofits: two nati...
Citation: Handy, Femida, Laurie Mook & Jack Quarter. 2008. Interchangeability of Paid Staff and Volunteers in Nonprofit Organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 37 (1):76-92.
Areas of Interest: Labour, Labour - Employee
- Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression
Through engaging case studies, the book examines how lawyers work within and for powerful institutions and provides suggestions--both general and practical--for ways in which the practice of law can be made to work with and for the powerless. Individuals chapters address such subjects as the contradictions of radical law practice; legal work in South Africa; the economics and politics of negotiating justice; feminist legal scholarship and women's gendered lives; the overlapping worlds of law, business, and politics; theories of legal practice; and how lawyers are constitutive of gender relations....
Citation: Cain, Maureen and Christine Harrington, eds. 1994. Lawyers in a Postmodern World: Translation and Transgression. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Areas of Interest: Economic, Gender, Labour, Public Policy, Theory
- Lawyers in the Market: Delivering Legal Services in Europe
The creation of Single European Market (SEM) presents lawyers with both an opportunity - to provide legal services and a challenge - to meet legal needs and to be competitive domestically and internationally....
Citation: McBarnet, Doreen andChristopher Whelan. 1992. Lawyers in the Market: Delivering Legal Services in Europe. Journal of Law and Society 19 (1):49-68.
Areas of Interest: Labour
- Managing Sustainable Global Supply Chains: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge
This systematic review synthesizes 194 studies spanning 25 years of research on sustainable supply chains and presents frameworks for developing competitive and sustainable global supply chains. Outlines a three-step process for developing sustainable global supply chains. Provides a new, helpful "best practices" framework on sustainable supply chain management. Provides an easy-to-use four-step checklist for building your sustainable supply chain....
Citation: Network for Business Sustainability. 2011. Managing Sustainable Global Supply Chains: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge. Network for Business Sustainability. Retrieved from: nbs.net/knowledge
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Sustainability
- Maquila Solidarity Update
Maquila Solidarity Update is published three times a year in English and Spanish. Our 8-page newsletter provides news, analysis and interviews on the struggle to uphold international labour rights in a globalized economy....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2003-2013. Maquila Solidarity Update. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Human Rights, Labour
- Outsourcing and Offshoring in Canada
The paper has three main objectives. First, it presents the long-term trends in outsourcing and offshoring across Canadian industries. Second, it examines the relationship between offshoring and changes in trade patterns at the industry level. It focuses on two major drivers that some have suggested are behind the recent trends toward offshoring: globalization and technological changes associated with information and communications technologies. Third, the paper examines the economic impact of offshoring by investigating the relationship between the extent of offshoring and productivity growth, shifts to high value-added activities and changes in labour markets....
Citation: Baldwin, John R., and Wulong Gu. 2009. Outsourcing and Offshoring in Canada. SSRN eLibrary. Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1369254
Areas of Interest: Globalization, Labour
- Reporting Volunteer Labour at the Organizational Level: A Study of Canadian Non-Profits
Canada is one of the few countries to include volunteer contributions in its National Accounts. However, not much is known yet about the extent to which individual nonprofit organizations keep records of volunteer contributions...
Citation: Laurie Mook, Femida Handy & Jack Quarter. 2007. Reporting Volunteer Labour at the Organizational Level: A Study of Canadian Non-Profits. Voluntas 18 (2):55-71.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Labour
- Responsible Property Investing and Property Management: Exploring the Impacts of Good Labour Practices on Property Performance
This paper examines the labour and human capital aspects of responsible real estate. Investors and property managers have started to implement responsible contractor policies (RCPs) in order to respond to labour challenges in the industry, including subcontracting, low wages and benefits, unstable working hours, and poor working conditions....
Citation: Hebb, Tessa, David Wood and Ashley Hamilton. 2009. Responsible Property Investing and Property Management: Exploring the Impacts of Good Labour Practices on Property Performance. Ottawa: Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. Available at http://www.carleton.ca/3ci/3ci_files/Documents/2009_ResponsiblePropertyInvesting_FINAL%5B1%5D.pdf. Accessed on January 07, 2012.
Areas of Interest: Labour, Public Policy, SRI/Responsible Investment
- Results of MSN/PODER Survey on Ratings Systems
MSN and the Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER) conducted a brief survey on whether CSR ratings can improve labour practices in global supply chains, which yielded 159 responses from trade unionists, international brands, social investment professionals, NGOs, academics, monitoring organizations, and others. It also yielded some interesting results and comments, which in addition to our initial publication Can CSR Ratings Improve Labour Practices in Global Supply Chains?, provide some useful feedback on the practice of rating and ranking companies on social issues....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2011. Results of MSN/PODER Survey on Ratings Systems. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, Labour
- Social Accountability International (SAI) Annual Report 2010
SAI's latest Annual Report features stories from their programs and highlights accomplishments and challenges in Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, India and Nicaragua as SAI and their partners work to win respect for the human rights of workers....
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Areas of Interest: Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Development, Economic - Social, Globalization, Human Rights, Labour, Labour - Employee, Labour - Health & Safety, Poverty
- Sustainability and Materiality in the Mining Sector
Sustainalytics' special report on the natural resources sector examines the link between corporate responsibility and competitiveness....
Citation: MacMahon, Simon, Irene Sosa and Kathryn Morrison. 2011. Sustainability and Materiality in the Mining Sector. Sustainalytics.
Areas of Interest: Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Labour, Public Policy - Regulation, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Financial Services Sector Supplement
The financial sector was segmented into four categories for the purposes of developing this Sector Supplement i.e. retail banking, commercial and corporate banking, asset management and insurance, otherwise referred to as the core business lines throughout the Sector Supplement....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Financial Services Sector Supplement,GRI, 2000-2008.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Mining and Metals Sector Supplement and Indicator Protocols Set
The mining and metals sector includes exploration, mining and primary metal processing (including smelting, recycling and basic fabrication) and covers the complete project life cycle from development through operational lifetime to closure and post-closure. The sector is diverse, and can contain companies that specialize exclusively in one part of the cycle, such as exploration companies, as well as large multi-national or vertically-integrated enterprises. Large mining groups may encompass a wide range of different mineral products in their subsidiary operating companies. Junior and mid-tier miners can also be responsible for exploration and production operations, but because of their size or business models may face particular challenges in relating to sustainability issues; they too can usefully report on these challenges through the Sector Supplement and improve their approaches. The Guidelines give reporters the opportunity to describe their own scope of operation, particularly in the boundary-setting and materiality disclosures....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & Mining and Metals Sector Supplement and Indicator Protocols Set, GRI, 2000-2010.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, Resource Extraction, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3.1) and Technical Protocol
The urgency and magnitude of the risks and threats to our collective sustainability, alongside increasing choice and opportunities, will make transparency about economic, environmental, and social impacts a fundamental component in effective stakeholder relations, investment decisions, and other market relations. To support this expectation, and to communicate clearly and openly about sustainability, a globally shared framework of concepts, consistent language, and metrics is required. It is the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) mission to fulfil this need by providing a trusted and credible framework for sustainability reporting that can be used by organizations of any size, sector, or location....
Citation: Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3.1) and Technical Protocol, GRI, 2000-2011.
Areas of Interest: Accountability - Reporting, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic, Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour, SRI/Responsible Investment, Sustainability
- Tehuacan: Blue jeans, blue waters and worker rights
Tehuacan: Blue Jeans, Blue Waters and Worker Rights is based on research and interviews carried out between September 2001 and May 2002 by the Human and Labour Rights Commission of the Tehuacan Valley....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network. 2003. Tehuacan: Blue jeans, blue waters and worker rights. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
- Tehuacan’s Garment Industry in Times of Crisis
In 2003, the Maquila Solidarity Network and the Human and Labour Rights Commission of Tehuacan Valley produced reports in English and Spanish on worker rights in the garment industry in Tehuacan in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The global economic situation and other factors in Mexico have contributed to significant change in the industry since the report came out in early 2003. In 2010, Rodrigo Santiago Hernandez, one of the authors of the original Spanish report, produced an update. The following is MSN’s summary and analysis of his research findings....
Citation: Maquila Solidarity Network and Rodrigo Santiago Hernndez. 2010. Tehuacans Garment Industry in Times of Crisis. Maquila Solidarity Network
Areas of Interest: Environment & Business, Human Rights, Labour
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