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  • Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway
    Canadian Pacific Railway demonstrates CSR by actively engaging the communities where it operates to strengthen relationships and proactively address public priorities. It has developed progressive mechanisms which have become the industry-wide bench...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Censure.cn : Google s’attaque au marché chinois
    Le populaire engin de recherche Internet Google est maintenant bien implanté en Chine. Le site google.cn est en opération depuis le 25 janvier 2006, après que le géant de l’Internet ait conclu une entente bien particulière avec les autorités chinois...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Corporate Autocracy
    Feudal loyalty to the CEO: Loyalty vs Voice—Raymond Quinn, Merril-Lunch Whistle-blower
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • DuPont Canada
    DuPont Canada is committed to being a sustainability leader in its sector and to creating lasting value in communities. It has adopted an outcome-based approach that uses triple bottom line reporting to measures progress in achieving specific enviro...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Home Depot and Habitat for Humanity
    The Home Depot Canada has formed a unique partnership with Habitat for Humanity Canada that allows both organizations to lever their respective strengths. Habitat for Humanity provides affordable housing solutions, and The Home Depot associates (emp...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Home Depot Canada
    Home Depot Canada’s CSR strategy has two goals: giving back to communities and reducing adverse environmental impacts resulting from its business and products. The company’s community investments target four priority areas: environment; affordable h...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Husky Injection Molding
    Five core values drive Husky Injection Molding’s CSR strategy: Make a Contribution; Proactive Environmental Responsibility; Uncompromising Honesty; Passion for Excellence; and, Bold Goals. These values are promoted throughout the company and are ref...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Investing in African Oppression
    Royal Dutch Shell Oil in the Nigerian Delta
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
  • Loblaws-Dixon Hall
    Companies own valuable assets that they can put at the service of non-profits. One such asset is physical space: office buildings, store facilities, warehouses, production sites. In Toronto, grocery-chain Loblaws made one of its buildings available ...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Mansfield Minera’s Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility
    This document reports the results of a field study that was conducted October 11-15, 2011. After a description of the context (company, area, and social and environmental factors) and of the field observations, the results are discussed in terms of ...
    Disciplines: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, General Management, Leadership, Operations Management, Organizational Behaviour, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
  • Nutreco Canada (Marine Harvest)
    Nutreco Canada (Marine Harvest) has adopted a company-wide credo that promotes CSR by outlining the firm’s understanding and acceptance of its responsibilities towards its stakeholders, employees and the planet. The effects of this credo can be seen...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Preparing to Mine: The Rio Tinto Venture inMadagascar
    In 1986 Rio Tinto (RT), one of the world’s largest mining companies, discovered a rich source of titantium oxide along several beaches in southeast Madagascar. Once this mine becomes operational, RT estimates that it could supply up to one tenth of ...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
  • Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and Alterna Savings
    The Public Service Alliance of Canada Staff and Officers Pension Fund and Alterna Savings Credit Union have partnered to create an innovative vehicle to invest in affordable housing. The pension fund investment provides a market rateof return as wel...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Rebooting CED Technology
    How do big global corporations work with small, local community economic development (CED) organizations? Microsoft Canada’s answer is to partner with a non-profit intermediary whose mission is aligned with the corporation’s core strength: technolog...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Smoking and Mirrors
    The FDA and Tobacco Company Litigation
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
  • Social Capital Partners and Active Green + Ross
    Franchising models can be adapted to address important social issues. Social hiring allows businesses to tap into job-ready and qualified segments of the population through community agencies. The benefits to employees, the corporation, and the comm...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Syncrude
    Syncrude has been a leader for a decade and a half in buying goods and services from Aboriginal suppliers. In fact, during that period, the company has purchased more than $1 billion from Aboriginal firms, bothprivate and community-owned. Understand...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Syncrude Canada Ltd.Earning its Social License to Operate
    Syncrude’s CSR activities are founded on a belief that sustainable development not only incorporates environmental and economic objectives, but also acknowledges the importance of stakeholder relations to business success. The company engages a broa...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
  • Teck Cominco
    As one of its first acts as a new company, following the merger of Teck Corporation and Cominco Ltd., Teck Cominco adopted a Charter of Corporate Responsibility in 2002 that is founded on three broad principles: product stewardship; environmental pe...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • TELUS
    For TELUS, CSR starts at home. The company has adopted a number of internal environmental targets, including reducing its energy consumption per unit of revenue generated (millions of dollars of sales) by 10% by 2007 and reducing the number of chemi...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • The Co-operators
    The Co-operators is committed to building sustainable communities through corporate giving. Through the establishment of Community Economic Development (CED) Funds, they have strategically invested in CED through their CSR efforts. Strategic philant...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • The Raglan Mine and Nunavik Inuit
    Mining companies have developed their mines in lands inhabited by indigenous peoples all over the globe. Many of these operations have occasioned criticism and protest by indigenous people and their friends (Whiteman and Mamen 2001). From the persp...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
  • VanCity Savings Credit Union
    VanCity Savings Credit Union considers itself a values-based organization that balances financial responsibility with making a contribution to the communities and broader society in which it operates – focusing particularly on members of the communi...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Wealth and Poverty in the Niger Delta: A Study of the Experiences of Shell in Nigeria
    Royal Dutch/Shell has been extracting oil in the Niger Delta since 1958. Over the course of more than forty years this oil has produced enormous revenues, billions of dollars worth. By 2003 oil export revenues had reached $290 billion (Litvin 2003, ...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility, International Business, Resource Extraction
  • Weyehaeuser Canada
    Weyerhaeuser Canada’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, Our Reputation: A Shared Responsibility, recognizes that the company has a responsibility to all stakeholders affected by its business and ensures that all employees hold themselves to the h...
    Disciplines: Corporate Social Responsibility
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