Business in Society

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Enablers

• Blurring boundaries between responsibilities and laws
  
• Butterfly effect
  
• Discontinuities in demographics and resources
  
• Growing safety, security concerns; sensitivity to risk
  
• Rising inequality
  
• Shifting values, social norms
  
• Ubiquity of technology
  

Inhibitors

• Corporations that do not comply with agreed conventions
  
• Shareholder value
  
• Global legislation in form of coventions and treaties
  
• National goverments that do not comply with agreed conventions
  

Paradigms

owing to pressure from the world community and corporate citizen, over the next ten years businesses will operate differently as they do now.

Experts

• EU
  
• United Nations
  
• National Governments
  
• Research Institutes & Universities (CSR research)
• Business Schools
  
• The Economist
  
• McKinsey
  

Timing

n/a

Web Resources

• Business Ehtics Magazine http://www.business-ethics.com/
• Business Ethics' 100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2004 http://www.business-ethics.com/chart_100_best_corporate_citizens_for_2004.htm
• Financial Times Report on Business & development - http://news.ft.com/cms/cff778cc-de70-11d9-92cd-00000e2511c8.html
• Financial Times Report on Sustainable business - http://news.ft.com/reports/susbusiness2005
• HBS Working Knowlegde on Social Enterprise http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topic.jhtml?t=nonprofit
• INSEAD Knowledge - Business, Society & Environment - http://knowledge.insead.edu/theme.cfm?tid=4
• The Economist Survey: Corporate Social Social Responsibility http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3555212
• Wharton on Business Ethics - http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewCat&CID=11