tailieunhanh - PUBLIC SECTOR ROLES IN STRENGTHENING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: TAKING STOCK

One of the more fascinating sections of the WSJ is on the inside of the back page under the standing headline “Abreast of the Market.” There you can read each day what the market did yesterday, whether it went up, down or sideways as measured by indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average . . In that column, you can also read selected post-mortems from brokerage houses, stock analysts and other professional track watchers explaining why themarket yesterday did whatever it did, sometimes with predictive nuggets about what it will do today or tomorrow. This is where the fascination lies. For no matter what the market did—up, down. | PUBLIC SECTOR ROLES IN STRENGTHENING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TAKING STOCK Halina Ward Director Corporate Responsibility for Environment and Development International Institute for Environment and Development for the Corporate Social Responsibility Practice of the World Bank Group January 2004 THE WORLD BANK JBIFC International finance Corporation Wild Bank Group This report is a product of the staff of the World Bank. The findings interpretations and conclusions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. Table of Contents Abbreviations and 1. 2. Public Sector 3. The Case for Public Sector Engagement in CSR and Public Governance Tackling Outstanding Challenges in the CSR Justifications for Public Sector Familiarity with Mainstream 4. CSR and Competitiveness Strategies .11 CSR and Investment and Purchasing Turning the Market Access Implications of CSR to Competitive Aligning CSR Investments with Pursuit of Public 5. Sustaining Indigenous CSR Agendas .17 6. Building Positive Spillovers for Domestic Enterprise Development. . . . 19 7. Building Positive Links between CSR and Public 8. Building on the Strengths of Different .