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Few issues arouse as much public condemnation as child pornography.   As   a visual record of child sexual abuse, its   production and dissemination   scars   innocent lives   forever.   It is illegal in virtually all developed countries to produce, distribute, and receive child pornography. So despite   a criminal online trade in child pornography worth   billions of   dollars, no   legitimate   company would knowingly   go anywhere near   the practice. But should companies play a larger role in actively stamping out child pornography? And if so, how far should they go? Read more on our blog posting over at CSR Wire  Photo by Za3tOoOr! . Reproduced under Creative Commons licence.

Canada is no frontrunner in tackling climate change. In fact, in many respects, it is quite the reverse. So we were pleased to see the release of WWF Canada's report "Rethink Business How Addressing Climate Change Can Improve The Bottom Line" which looks at what some of the country's leading companies are doing to address climate change in their organizations.In fact we were so pleased that Andy agreed to write the forword for the report. Here's a sample of what he says: "For Canadian business, the threat of climate change looms large. Nonetheless, despite its reputation as a clean, eco-loving country of verdant forestsand sparkling rivers, Canada remains a major laggard in climate protection. According to official statistics, it has one of the highest rates of per capita CO2 emissions of any country in the world. The conditions for a major change in this situation are hardly propitious either. The  economy is wedded to fossil fuels, and the federal governme...

Today we have another of our guest bloggers taking a turn on the Crane and Matten blog. Robert Strand from  Copenhagen Business School sets out why he thinks there's a distinctly Scandinavian approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR). --------------------------------------------------------- I had the pleasure of spending time with Andy Crane during his recent visits to the Copenhagen Business School Centre for CSR, where I am pursing my Ph.D.  Andy asked if I would share a few words about the Scandinavian approach to CSR- a topic I find so interesting that I was compelled to leave my cushy corporate job in the US to move to the heart of Scandinavia and return to the days of being a poor student. First off, why study CSR in Scandinavia?  Well, for one, by pretty much any measure Scandinavia leads the world in strong CSR performances.  Gather up a suite of your favorite CSR indices and you are sure to find a disproportionate amount of Scandinavian companies a...

What does business owe the world? OK, now that's a pretty big question. Where do you even begin to start the long list of demands and grievances that are stacking up against the corporate world? But this is the question that the Harvard Business Review has posed in a new online debate launched a week or so ago. It's a provocative starting point, and not simply (as some might have expected from HBR), an excuse to really ask 'What, if anything, does business owe the world?'. With uncommon good timing, the debate kicked off with a lively exchange of blogs from invited contributors on the issue of externalities , and whether the internalizing of externalities - or moving from external to internal (e2i) costing of social impacts - is an appropriate expression of corporate responsibility. We say good timing because just as the first part of the debate was drawing to a close, the US began to experience one of its worst oil spills in history in the Gulf of Mexico. Now pollut...