Corporate Social Responsibility


German Multi Stakeholder Workshops on CSR

Since 2004 a series of workshops on CSR where carried out. The workshops in 2005 focussed on

- Verifcation of CSR reports
- CSR in the supply chain
- management of CSR.

For each workshop a research study was prepared. Further informations and downloads are available at the project page of the German CSR Workshops on this website.

Project data 2005
Project of future e.V. and 4Sustainability
Researchers: Sabine Braun, Thomas Loew
Sponsored by: Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety
Project period: August 2005 - March 2006

Publications
German Federal Ministry for the Environment (Ed.) (2006)
Corporate Social Responsibility: An Introduction from the Environmental Perspective, Berlin direct download / download at www.bmu.de

Loew T (2006)
CSR in the Supply Chain: Challenges and Starting Points for Companies (German with English abstract) Download

Loew T, Braun S (2006)
Organising CSR: From Environmental Management to Sustainable Corporate Governance? (German with English summary) Download

The Impact of CSR on Sustainability Requirements to Business

The large number of different approaches and requirements for the implementation of a corporate sustainability strategy is leading to uncertainty not only in companies but also amongst stakeholders and policy makers. Questions centre on the significance of environmental protection and product orientation within the framework of the various approaches. Are environmental issues losing ground while social requirements gain more importance?

In addition, there is a profusion of terms and definitions, encompassing everything from corporate social responsibility (CSR) through corporate citizenship (CC) to sustainability. Furthermore, the terms are defined differently at international, European and national levels.

The study provides the political community, industry associations and companies with a classification of the approaches and a clear set of terms and definitions.

The second part of the study analyses the business requirements within the context of the EU strategy on CSR, and against the background of the sustainability debate taking place within Germany. International SRI-experts and representatives from German stakeholder groups were consulted when the framework of sustainability requirements to companies was developed.


Project data

Project by future e.V. in co-operation with IÖW
Researchers: Thomas Loew (project manager), Sabine Braun, Kathrin Ankele, Jens Clausen
Sponsored by: Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety
Project period: 2003-2004


Publications

Loew T, Ankele K, Braun S, Clausen J (2004)
Significance of the CSR Debate for Sustainability and the Requirements for Companies, Berlin, Münster
English Summary
Final Report (German)

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