A practical guide to developing and installing a CSR strategy
June / July 2011
In an article for Human Resources Magazine International, Steve Askins sets out the steps for HR professionals looking to develop and implement a CSR strategy and challenges them to take a leadership role.
linked website: www.hrm-international.eu

Corporate Social Responsibility from the Private Investor Viewpoint
February 2011
In a talk for the UK Shareholders Association , Janet Sidaway sets out how Corporate Social Responsibility has moved from “nice to have” to “must have” over the past eight years.

Chuggers, Milton Friedman and employee engagement
October 2010
Responding to Tom Flood’s ‘In my opinion piece’ in Management Today, Steve Askins and Janet Sidaway set out their view that in the 21st century the best corporations should address CSR openly as part of their shareholder value strategies without the need for the ‘cloak’ that Milton Friedman saw as necessary in the 1970s.
Linked website: www.managementtoday.co.uk

The Impact of Climate Change on Investment Behaviour
June 2007
CSR Consulting was commissioned by The HeadLand Consultancy to undertake the fieldwork for a research study to assess institutional investor response to climate change. The findings indicated that for traditional fund management, climate change was seen as a longer term issue which would not fundamentally change investment behaviour until trustees demanded it or regulation required it.
Linked website: www.headlandconsultancy.com

CSR: The re-working of an old idea?
The Bridge; January 2007
Charles Kaye, a CSR Consulting associate, looks at the historical basis for what we now know as CSR in an article published in the magazine of the Industry and Parliament Trust.
Linked website: www.ipt.org.uk

The Best Way Forward
Chain Leader February/March 2006
An integrated corporate responsibility strategy improves profitability and reduces business risk; this is becoming particularly important for the hospitality industry as it faces increasing social and environmental challenges.
Linked website: www.CatererSearch.com

“R vs. R”:The Rhetoric versus the Reality of Corporate Social Responsibility
January 2005
Challenges for the corporate sector, investors, and the Government, based on a case study in the Foodservice sector
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Globalisation: Blessing or Curse
June 2004
Talk given by Janet Sidaway at a Lutheran Conference in Hamburg in June 2004, arguing that properly understood and managed, globalisation could be a positive stimulus for a fairer world.
For further information contact: Dr. Martin Illert at St. Jakobi, Hamburg (

Taking up the CSR Challenge
Professional Investor ; February 2004
Fund managers should take more note of the investment risks associated with poor CSR and encourage sell- side analysts to include CSR assessment in their corporate assessments.
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