Corporate Social Responsibility Project
Encouraging corporate responsibility as a means of progressing global sustainability
At the University of South Australia, we believe it is the responsibility of universities to help analyse contemporary social, economic and political challenges, and to contribute to the tasks required to meet those challenges. The issue of Corporate Social Responsibility is emerging as one of the most pressing business challenges of our times.
Despite the best intentions of the public and non-government sectors, and reams of well-written policy documents, corporate disasters still happen. They can devastate years of exhaustive effort towards continuous improvement. Public outrage leads to criticism of corporate behaviour, and politicians feel obliged to respond with more regulation of business enterprises. But formal, legal regulation addresses only the symptoms, rarely the causes, of system breakdown.
The CSR project has been supported by the Herald of Free Enterprise Trust and the Division of Business. This trust is also connected with the group Disaster Action in the UK.
The CSR project is designed to develop case studies that challenge business to meet the goals of corporate social responsibility. Some of the latest systems and frameworks (beyond legal regulation) are explored on this site. Practical strategies for assuring corporate integrity and protecting corporate reputation are addressed.
Professor Rick Sarre
School of Commerce
Division of Business
University of South Australia
GPO Box 2471, Adelaide SA 5001
Australia
Tel.: +61 8 8302 0889
Fax: +61 8 8302 0992