The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College is a membership-based research and education center in the Carroll School of Management. The Center provides knowledge and learning opportunities designed to help executives, managers and employees advance positive corporate citizenship from wherever they sit in the organization. It offers research, tools, conferences, networking, and executive education programs pertaining to issues of corporate citizenship / corporate social responsibility to corporate members worldwide. Much of their research is freely available to the public, and can be downloaded from their website.
The Center for Corporate Citizenship's activities have been reported on by such reputable news sources as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Boston Business Journal,[1] as well as by smaller online journals, such as CSRwire,[2] Ethical Performance,[3] and SocialFunds.[4] The Center also helped develop and launch the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, which focuses explicitly on integrating theory about corporate citizenship with management practice.
The Center's research focus is on producing knowledge that is useful for corporate citizenship practitioners. Some of its publications are listed below:
Summaries of recent or seminal research findings from corporate practice and academic study that offer insights and tools for corporate citizenship.
State of Corporate Citizenship 2009: Weathering the storm
The fourth biennial survey of the attitudes and actions of senior executives in small, medium and large businesses regarding corporate citizenship.
How to Read a Corporate Social Responsibility Report: A user’s guide
This guide is intended to help those approaching CSR reporting for the first time, as well as those looking to deepen their understanding of what makes for a thorough CSR report. It will help readers, whatever their interests or experience, to identify quickly and easily the most valuable parts of these reports. It applies to both reading and writing CSR reports.
Leadership Competencies for Community Involvement: Getting to the roots of success
This report looks at the role, responsibilities and leadership competencies required for developing, driving and implementing a 21st century corporate community involvement strategy.
Mapping Stakeholder Landscapes: The influence and impact of global stakeholders
A publications developed by members of the Global Education Research Network, this stakeholder landscape looks at nine countries: Chile, China, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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