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The authors assess the role of the multilateral development system and the reforms needed to support the new global agenda. There is an urgency to the reforms. The coming decades will see the largest urban expansion in history. More infrastructure needs to be built in the next 15 years than the...
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Problem Definition: To manage supplier social responsibility (SR), some firms have adopted a self-assessment strategy whereby they ask suppliers to self-report SR capabilities. Self-reported information is difficult to verify and this leads to an important credibility question: can a buyer...
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Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...
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Sustainability has been defined by the Brundtland Commission (Brundtland, 1987) as "meeting the needs of the present … sustainability (WBCSD - World Business Council for Sustainable Development), the latter are severely and continuously criticized for … actions that contradict their glossy sustainability reports (Holliday, 2010). However, it is often the case that such …
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