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The Difference Makers: How Social and Institutional Entrepreneurs Created
the Corporate Responsibility Movement
by Sandra Waddock
Thank you Professor Waddock. This is practically the book I wanted to write so you saved me from a huge project! (My version also visits the people inside sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) and looks at the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR), but focuses more on the former if only because of my own experience, networks, and focus.)
Waddock sets the stage by tying together ideas that emerged over the past few decades about globalization and out-of-control corporate behavior with movements that emerged endeavoring to change those systems from within. Then in their own words, the various players share their emergent ideas with us about how their movements are actively changing corporate and investment landscapes—for the better. Ever wonder how SRI, Forest Stewardship Council, Fair Trade labeling, or Social Accountability International fit together or came into being? Those and many other stories are now at your fingertips here.
The whole thing is laid out nicely for the reader—taking you through the rapid evolution and adoption of SRI and CSR via story and personal accounts, rather than a compilation of cold information as are most other books in this space. I would have included many of the same energetic innovators as Waddock did such as Tim Smith of ICCR, SIF, and Walden; John Ruggie of the UN Global Compact; Amy Domini of Domini Funds; and Joan Bavaria of Trillium and CERES; and then added some others such as Laurie McClain or George Gay, who directly serve citizen-investor beneficiaries of all this ground-breaking SRI and CSR work.
The stories in this book will be eye-opening to anyone with an interest in SRI or CSR and definitely essential reading for all business and MBA students.
The book can also be used as sort-of a candy bowl (fair trade organic chocolates of course). You pick it up and read a couple inspiring stories at a time, tasting this one, then that. I started out academically reading it cover to cover but ended up doing the indulgent relaxed candy bowl thing instead.
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Socially
Responsible Investing : Making a Difference and Making Money
by
Amy L. Domini
You feel great that your money is socially responsibly invested and you’ve been doing it for a number of years now. Your
advisor has explained how it works several times to you and it always makes sense. But when the subject of investing comes up in a conversation, you feel you’re stumbling around trying to explain what SRI is. If that sounds familiar, you need to look at this book.
Even if you don’t have the time or patience to read the whole thing (268 pages including comprehensive index), at least you can go through it and
prepare yourself for that next time when the dreaded topic, investing, comes up.
Wouldn't it be great to be able to clearly explain to your brother, mother, or aunt what SRI is all about?
Amy Domini, one of the pioneers in the modern social investment movement, covers the three main strategies of SRI through true stories and lots of
examples. The three main strategies are of course screening, shareholder
activism, and community investing.
She starts you out with a solid foundation building the context of why we invest in the first place and applies that to the idea of how your investments can provide more than financial results. Then she takes you through a quick history of the SRI movement.
After the fascinating treatment of the three strategies mentioned above, the book also covers how this all fits into the global economy and how our
application of SRI strategies is changing the world. So do it for your brother, mother, or aunt—take a look at this book!
"The sweatshop dialogue has led to the development of
standards. Over time, a more sophisticated assessment of corporate adherence to
these standards will develop, and the tools for deciding which companies are
more responsible, and which are less, will evolve. At that point, real screening
can take place, but to date only Nike (NKE) has become a boycott target and
therefore a divestment target. Corporate responsibility for the existence of
sweatshops is only just beginning to be understood. The evolution of socially
responsible investing will be profoundly affected by this debate, which is
perhaps the most complex issue the field has faced since South Africa..."
"Social screening is not very effective at dealing with
issues that lie at the core of the for-profit system such as monopolistic
tendencies, aggressive marketing practices, and the like. Such issues are
probably better left in the hands of government and communities..."
"Shareholder activism is possible because as the owner of a
stock you are part owner of a corporation. In the United States, this gives you
certain rights and, arguable, responsibilities. These rights are largely the
result of the same legislation that created the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) and other shareholder protections mentioned in the last
chapter. This legislation gives you, as an investor, the right to receive
financial information quarterly in unaudited form, as well as an audited annual
report, which we use as the basis for much of our social research."
The Exception to the Rulers
by Amy Goodman, David Goodman
Democracy Now! news
program host, Amy Goodman and brother David Goodman share incredible
first-hand accounts and other stories about the media and these
times.
If you have been a regular listener to Democracy Now! or been to
her lectures, you have already heard some of the stories. Otherwise,
get this book and start listening to the real news tomorrow.
Great stories to share with family and friends to enlighten the
uninitiated.
"She gets up every morning of every day — long before the rest of us! — to be the only daily voice of truth on the radio in the United States of America. How sad that I even have to write those words! A nation of 300 million, a written guarantee of a free press, and no one will do the job that Amy Goodman does so simply, so profoundly. This book puts the pedal to the metal of all the lies we're told, day in and day out. Amy Goodman is a national treasure, and if you are unable to pick up her signal on the dial, you can now pick up this book, shake your head in disbelief and disgust as you read it, and then put it down so you can go raise some hell!"
—Michael Moore, director, Bowling for Columbine,
and author, Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?
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Eco-Economy:
Building an Economy for the Earth
by Lester R. Brown
By the author of umpteen "State of the World" books at
World Watch Institute.
Fascinating exploration of how currently, the environment supports
and serves the economy and suggesting how it would work so much
better if instead, the economy served the environment and our well-being.
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The
Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the
Corporate Aristocracy
by Marjorie Kelly, 2001 Barrett-Koehler
Explores the correlation between the profit motive and
the co-optation of our democracy by private
corporate interests.
In the wake of the Enron scandal, which showed how
deeply corporate money and political power are
connected, people will demand the kind of change
that Kelly advocates.
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Investing
With Your Values, Making Money and Making a
Difference,
Brill, Brill, Feigenbaum, 1999, Bloomberg Press.
Hal Brill (Paonia, CO) and Jack Brill (San Diego) are financial
advisors. Cliff Feigenbaum (Santa Fe, NM) is editor
of GreenMoney Journal. The three collaborated on this well laid out
SRI book.
Includes appendixes and index. Foreword by Ami Domini.
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Jews, Money & Social Responsibility: A "Torah of Money"..., Lawrence Bush, 1993, Shefa Fund.
Socially responsible shopping, investment and philanthropy from an American Jewish perspective.
This book can serve to challenge and motivate American Jews
towards promoting social justice. Reinforces and informs
positive Jewish identity into action.
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Natural
Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial
Revolution,
by Paul Hawken, Amory
B. Lovins, L.
Hunter Lovins
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins; what else
can I say?!
Nice cover design--Spiral.
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