The purpose of this paper is to answer the following question: are corporations responsible for protecting the environment? In order to answer this question, this paper addresses the following topics: major oil spills, corporate social responsibility, corporate social irresponsibility,...

With the Europe 2020 strategy the EU has set itself, under conditions of a changing world, the goal of becoming an intelligent, sustainable and inclusive economy. Under the current conditions of budget constraints and economic difficulties the conventional mechanisms for promoting social justice...

Veolia Water and Suez Environnement manage drinking water supply not only in France but also across the globe. They have developed a series of social performance indicators that have been used in their sustainable development reports since 2002. This paper examines to what extent the publication...

The article specifies the concept of regional socioeconomic system adaptation and describes its mechanisms proceeding from its constructive value, admittedly the most significant criterion in the times of crisis. On the basis of comparison of separate of the interrogations spent in 2004 and...

В статье обосновывается особая значимость и актуальность вопросов социальной ответственности в условиях кризиса. Разработана система социально-экономических...

Рассматриваются подходы к пониманию термина «корпоративная социальная ответственность», приводится модель формирования социальной ответственности бизнеса.

The article substantiates the significant role of CSR and its topicality under crisis circumstances. The authors devise the system of social and economic indices which demonstrate the positive impact of CSR measures. They consider two major aspects of CSR: corporate aspect and territorial...